Continued work on my current pool of projects (work, moonlighting, hobby) while being taken in by a variety of April Fools jokes on the web. Had dinner at a great little vegetarian restaurant, Bellas, in Northampton, MA. Went to a 1900->2000 time capsule opening at Mt Holyoke College, where it was discovered in front of a large audience that the box was soldered shut, requiring a somewhat extended wait while appropriate tools were identified to open the box without damaging the contents. Turned out that the Mt Holyoke class of 1900 had quite a sense of humor...

FreeBSD capabilities are progressing--wrote about 10 pages worth of man pages, and cleaned up supporting libraries. Should be ready to put a version online RSN.

Haven't made much progress on extended attributes, as I'm hoping for some feedback before pushing it out the door, as it's likely to be a little more on the controversial side: the often lauded but infrequently used method of choice for file system extension in FreeBSD is layering, and I am not using it for this :-). While stacked file systems offer a number of architectural advantages, there are serious problems with the supporting infrastructure currently, although efforts are underway to correct this. However, until it's fixed, I still have work to do, so extended attributes are part of my base version of FFS. I also suspect that until FFS itself is broken into layers (namespace vs. filestore) services such as extended attributes cannot reasonably be implemented as layers, due to the issues associated with hard links, garbage collection, etc.

Work continues as usual: quite hectic with many impending deadlines, both for NAI/TIS stuff, and contract work/writing. Given the choice of falling behind or canceling commitments, I always seem to choose falling behind. Not clear that this is a healthy habit.