One of the little divides in Unix is the one between people who set uptheir shell to have a per-shell command history (a local history) andthe people who set their shell up to use a global history.

While I know perfectly sane and sensible people who are in the globalhistory camp, I am firmly on the local history side, because to me myshell history is contextual. When I hit cursor up or tell a shell toredo the last command, I want it to do redo the

The link of the time interval comes from the online comic strip BonoboConspiracy , whichneatly summarizes the reality of XML on the web in today's strip .

The following is the ZFS-based design we would like to use for our newfileserver environment , presentedfor your entertainment and whatever use you can get from it.

The basic thing we give people are 'storage pools', which are made upfrom one or more standard sized 'bricks' of storage. Each storage poolcontains one or more filesystems, and is owned by a group (or a singleperson).

(Here I am using 'filesystem' to mean 'distinct mount point' or'different

I suspect that one consequence of allowing packages to ask usersquestions at install time, as Debian does ,is that it allows divisive packaging issues to stay unresolved becausepeople can always say 'fine, we'll offer both options and let the userchoose'. No one actually has to compromise or give in, so everyone sitsaround quietly nursing the issue until (if you are lucky) it all getsforgotten about.

(Of course, then you can have a new flamewar over what the defaultchoice should be