I'm fresh back from Sun near Boston, doin' the laundry and the workin' out and end of month freaking out, tracking the pay for every payment. Tomorrow I'm off to Ottawa to teach -- well, ride herd on, maybe -- the class I just saw in Boston. I'll have some power-nerd stuff to say about topics in the class soon enough, but for now I'm processing so much new schmeer my brain's full.

We finally get to cover a bit of ZFS and Trusted Extensions, or TX in the latest revision of SA-225, the leading revenue maker for instructor-led training products at Sun Education. I've been teaching it a fair amount, owing to demand, and happy to see something new to talk about.

I didn't think I would be all that interested in TX -- it's just Trusted Solaris (TSOL) with an interesting tweak using Solaris Zones -- but I am. More on that later. I did know I'd be gassed about getting into ZFS, and I'll provide some cool things to do with it once I refine those tricks into scripts, perfecting for changing out my author line with yours! If you're at all into Solaris technology, you should be too. ZFS is going to change the way we manage disks and data, a lot. Just you wait.