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I spent most of today reasoning through a set of DLM and mds_open changes with Peter, that will represent a pretty significant departure from The Old Way Of Doing Things, as far as Lustre metadata is concerned. Then I spent a few hours alternating between watching Jacob play the sims, and trying to implement said reasoning. Now it’s almost 06h and I’m running out of steam, but these changes give me vastly renewed hope in our metadata story.

Just for the record: Kalpana Chawla, the Indian-born American astronaut, was on her second mission. In looking for a citation, my interest was piqued:

Her first shuttle flight was in 1997, also aboard Columbia. She was never part of the Indian space programme; she immigrated as a graduate student and started working at NASA in 1988. Aside from being the first Indian-native in space, she was apparently also the first female aeronautical engineer in the history of the Punjab Engineering College.