Here is something that we discovered recently: ZFS will refuse toscrub a pool that is DEGRADED , even if the degraded state is harmlessto actual pool redundancy and there is no resilvering going on. In theusual ZFS manner, it doesn't give you any actual errors, it just doesn'tdo anything when you ask for a pool scrub.

(Now, I can't be completely and utterly sure that it was the DEGRADEDstate that blocked the scrub and not coincidence or somethingunrelated. But I

For reasons that are going to become apparent soon, I need to explainhow NFS mounting works.

NFS servers (in the code and protocol sense) just talk NFS, which isto say that you give them an NFS filehandle and tell them what operation you want to do with it and they give you areply. One of those operations is to look up a name in a directory andgive you its filehandle, which is the basic building block that lets aclient traverse a filesystem's directory hierarchy.

Thus

Comments on the last entry brought up the questionFedora on desktops (what I call 'workstations' out of tradition), andin general the issue of what distribution to run on them. It's a goodquestion and I can't claim exhaustive experience, but here's my views.

I run Fedora on my own desktop and, despite my gripes, it generallyworks and works well. I deal with the short support period partly byaccepting that I'll lose a few days to upgrades every