So what is this 'Full' limit? In the ZFS world it's accepted to keep the pool (volume) under 80% usage to prevent issues. Is this something that should be applied as a 'best practice' to btrfs?

Doesn't Amazon Web Services run on XEN? A quick googling seems to indicate that AWS does use XEN. If that's the case I'd have to say XEN is far from dead, and that this would be a good thing.

Wait, wait, wait... wait, just wait... I thought the world DIDN'T end in 2012 like those crazy Maya believers said. The gnome team listening to feedback... wow what's next, no wait don't tell me. Microsoft will realize the folly of Windowz 8 in time to 'add' a feature in Windowz 9 SP1 that'll make the IT industry happy again. There it is, you heard it first here kiddies!

Why is it people ascribe *nix (specifically it seems Linux) as Communist software? If anything, in my odd little world it seems more Capitalist than Communist, maybe Socialist; but not Communist. To me it simply seems wrong to say that with Windows I'm running an OS that is installed on physical hardware I FREAKING OWN but I do not 'own' the code to the operating system running on that hardware. Linux is MINE, I can look at it, tweak it, do whatever the hell I want with it; I just do not see how being able to do whatever I want with something I own is 'communist' in any way shape or form. /end rant

The confusion sets in...

Good luck with that, we humans have entire criminal justice systems which are supposed to bring accountability... pretty sure you know where I'm going with this one.

I'm using this in an enterprise level environment, over 100 servers in 24 different locations backing up just over 2500 Winderz desktops. The only feature I find missing in this environment is the lack of a 'single pane of glass' to manage it all. Granted I don't think it was intended to be an enterprise solution, however for the cost and what it does it's simply amazing.

Can you say whoops.... "The FBI special agent who wrote the affidavit also requested that Dears not be told about the information request, however the search warrant and affidavit were not sealed." Pretty sure the whole planet knows now dood...

Not to fan a political fire but Mr. Obama ain't no saint when it comes to secrecy... http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/nation/la-na-ticket21-2010mar21 ^ not exactly a 'conservative' paper by any means. Cherry picking from the article "An Associated Press examination of 17 major agencies' handling of FOIA requests found denials 466,872 times, an increase of nearly 50% from the 2008 fiscal year under Bush". Lets just face it Obama is a politician, and as a politician essentially every time he opens his mouth he lies, just like his predecessor, and his, etc, etc, etc. WE the people really need to wake the hell up and hold these people we elect accountable, we need to research their records and hold their feet to the fire when they lie to us, conservative or liberal doesn't matter a lie is a lie and this President lies with the best of them.

I wonder if the State of Jefferson would authorize autonomous cars?

Wow.. Nevada is leading? As a satellite state of the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia usually we follow suite with the good socialists next door, not show them how to do it first. Maybe the world is coming to an end in 2012.

I'm going to have to give another nod to BackupPC. Although my org has not been using it for quite as long we have quite an impressive backup requirement (3 years!) and 23 sites to backup with a mix of Win / Lin being backed up.

You are missing the point, midway through the article and I quote; 'and his punishment was to be sent back to a closed prison.' regardless if it happened to one or one hundred inmates, the only way such rehabilitation can work is if the threat of returning to 'closed' prison exists. If that threat where not viable the inmates would have no reason to rehabilitate themselves.