[Twg] TWG meeting notes for Jan 13, 2011

[David Dillow]

OpenSFS Technical Working Group
Meeting minutes for Jan 13, 2011

 9:30a PST start of call
10:00a PST vendors drop off; RFP discussion with remaining participants
10:15a PST end of call

Agenda
	Discuss Pam Hamilton's "Ideas for consideration"
	Requirements gathering update
	Discuss RFP

Attending:
	Damian Hazen	LBL		dhazen at lbl.gov
	Marc Stearman	LLNL		marc at llnl.gov
	Chris Morrone	LLNL		morrone2 at llnl.gov
	Shay Seager	OpenSFS		shay at opensfs.org
	Galen Shipman	ORNL		gshipman at ornl.gov
	David Dillow	ORNL		dillowda at ornl.gov
	Andreas Dilger	Whamcloud	adilger at whamcloud.com
	Robert Reed	Whamcloud	rread at whamcloud.com


Ideas for consideration
	There was a brief discussion regarding the suggestions put forth by Pam
Hamilton from the support working group, with concurrence on exploring
the BTRFS investigation. The other items had some brief discussion on
the reflector and were not discussed on the call.


Requirements gathering
	Most people were waiting on the template text to make their contact
with their list of organizations. They will get their messages out
today.  Eric Barton, John Carrier, and Steve Simms were not on the call,
so no status update on their contacts. 
	Reiterated the importance of the TWG having a list of priorities and
potential projects going into the face-to-face meeting in Chicago if we
wish to achieve our goals. A high priority for Chicago is to leave with
RFPs in hand, ready to put on the street. Would prefer to have text in
hand for our top items going into the F2F.
	Asked that members send their priority lists to the reflector, as we
may not get much feed back from our contacts due to short notice. We
then had a brief recap of IU and ORNL's priorities, and added a few.
Alphabetically:

	IU    -- Improved error reporting
	ORNL  -- Online filesystem integrity checks
	LBL   -- Integrated performance monitoring
	LLNL  -- Completing OSD restructuring/kDMU work
	LLNL  -- Size on MDS
	Multi -- BTRFS investigation
	Multi -- Imperative recovery
	Multi -- Improved admin/mgmt tools
	Multi -- Improved metadata performance
	SGI?  -- LNET Channel Bonding


RFP discussion
	Vendors were asked to leave so we could discuss items relating to the
RFP. Members to send item text to Galen, will send around draft to
member organizations _not_ interested in bidding. List is at
http://lists.opensfs.org/listinfo.cgi/twg-rfp-opensfs.org

-- 
Dave Dillow
National Center for Computational Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(865) 241-6602 office