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Subject: Notes from Our Discussion about 20% Effort on Internal/Improvement Projects
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:49:59 -0800
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Thread-Topic: Notes from Our Discussion about 20% Effort on Internal/Improvement Projects
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From: "Jay Michlin" <jay.michlin@onstor.com>
To: "dl-Software" <dl-software@onstor.com>
Cc: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>,
	"Ian Brown" <ian.brown@onstor.com>

Hello all,

In our staff meeting today we brainstormed on projects we might do as
part of the Delorean release (probably for March or April) to attend to
areas of our code we think need attention. These projects won't likely
add immediate features that are visible to customers, but rather will
add strength, robustness or solid foundation to our overall product. The
payoff is long term, but it's work that must go on constantly.

Here (in no particular order) are the items we mentioned:

* Encryption and/or compression for DM-IP
* Improve upgrade time and upgrade reliability
* Vol Create /8 LUNs
* Eliminate SendAgile
* Rewrite tpl/fp
* Rewrite/clean up/refactor sanmd
* eee buffer tagging/descriptor tagging
* Mirror repair or resynchronize
* Verify the file system log
* Authentication for DM-IP
* eek for clusDB
* Shrink the clusDB

Some of the best ideas come in a second round, after seeing a set of
notes such as these. So please do review them and if you have thoughts,
comments or new ideas, please send them to the entire list. As we
develop the details of Delorean planning in the next 3 weeks, we will
try to include some set of these projects along with the feature
development and committed file system hardening.

jay
