I'm speaking at AsiaBSDCon 2024

AsiaBSDCon 2024 starts next week in Taipei, and I’ll be there!

I’ll be presenting two sessions (working titles):

• Dirty deals: the story of a data corruption bug in OpenZFS, on last year’s exciting (apparent) data corruption bug and its resolution. The talk is probably going to be mostly a rehash of the blog post, but that’s ok; not everyone has heard about it, and it’s a good story with some important conclusions.
• Why fsync() on OpenZFS can’t fail, and what happens when it does, which covers at least a third of my 2023 client work, and describes a very interesting situation where fsync() on OpenZFS can return success without the data actually being stored. Don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it sounds!

I’m excited! It’ll be my first air travel and first conference since before the pandemic; my first serious outing with my mental health in a pretty good state; and a whole new community of people and technology that I’ve had precious little to do with so far but who have been incredibly kind and encouraging since I turned up with a head full of Linuxisms and other silly ideas. And I’ll finally get to meet some of my Klara colleagues and find out if they’re as cool and interesting as they seem from the other end of the Zoom call 😇.

I’ve also scammed an invite to the two-day FreeBSD Developer Summit, where I’m hoping to find someone to stare into my bhyve/QEMU work and help me get it up to scratch (I’ll write more about these things sometime).

Should be fun! Say hi to me if you see me, I’ll be the one looking wide-eyed and confused.