This week, we:

• got 10,541 messages from 243 different IP addresses.
• handled 22,006 sessions from 1,956 different IP addresses.
• received 515,114 connections from at least 130,401 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 10 connections being checked at once.

Connection volume has jumped significantly from last week and session volume is up, which suggests thatour simplistic greylisting stuff is no longer working quite

I was recently reading this slide from a presentation , which set me tothinking about the whole issue of what makes me consider something to be'strongly typed'.

In high-level languages, I have a pragmatic definition: if 2 + "3" succeeds, especially if it is 5, your language is weakly typed. Thus, awk and Perl are weakly typed but Python and Ruby are strongly typed.

(I have to restrict this to high-level languages because this works inC, although it does

Here's a paradox that we only realized recently: in some situations,using RAID-5 can be less reliable overall than using no RAID at all.

This comes about because while RAID-5 preserves your data over asingle-drive failure, it loses all your data if there is ever a doubledrive failure.

Our specific case is a disk-based incremental backup system. Right now aday's backups take up about a third of a disk, and we have it set up soeach day

This is not counting features that Sun has already said they are goingto put in someday, like the ability to remove vdevs from a ZFS pool.The motivation for many of these wishes is good long term storagemanagement , something that ZFS iscurrently weak at.

• the ability to migrate a filesystem from storage pool to storagepool (on the same system) without user-visible downtime or lockups.In theory this ought to be doable, since ZFS is abstracting everythinganyways.

• the ability to control and change what vdevs