Oracle should offer to provide indemnification to vendors. They've got a large patent portfolio of their own and obviously large assets to make them a much more formidable foe to NetApp.

Any plans to add in write cache support? I'm thinking along the lines of putting ZFS's ZIL on SSD's. Really makes NFS in sync mode much quicker.

Agree that ZFS is "way ahead" of btrfs (and most any other filesystem out there other than WAFL really) due to the fact that it's available "now". btrfs will most likely address the issues you bring up by the time they are stable, but still will need a year or two of burn-in time. ZFS needed the same...

I have no doubt that btrfs or something else will eventually fill the void in the Linux world. I think Sun/Oracle does themselves a disservice by licensing things such that ZFS cannot be included in the Linux kernel... all they're doing is ensuring that the Linux community will come up with something compareable down the road when instead they could just let everyone use ZFS and become the de facto standard.

Ah well.

First Paul Krugman, now this. How irrelevant is the Nobel Prize these days?

Just a bunch of elitists scratching their own backs.

Years of diplomacy (UN inspections and such) were tried with Iraq after the first gulf war.

Yeah, I think it was an internal thing, and no packages were ever distributed. The steps they took were all precautionary (with as internal as it was they probably could have said nothing and no one would have been the wiser).

But hey, fun to stir up FUD...

Because Debian has a LOT more manpower than Slackware does?

This has everything to do with Arlen's political survival (aka pulling a Lieberman) as he was about to be voted out of office in the Republican primary there.

And I'm not sure that it's a clear cut win for Democrats... Arlen will be an uncertain ally at best, and negates the Democrats ability to run someone really far to the left against Toomey in PA which I'm sure they would have loved to do. So, a mixed bag. Arlen's effectively been a democrat (or at least not a republican) for many years now anyways, so while this is a PR blow to be sure it won't change much as far as senate politics are concerned.

As far as Arlen trying to say the GOP has moved right since Reagan's days? Hogwash, they've moved left and become indistinguishable from Democrats which is why they're being punished by the voters. Arlen's own appeal to Reaganism is offset by a quote from the man himself: