A while back I wrote about the ZFS SAN failover problem , and recently a commentator asked what we'vedecided to do about it. Our current answer to the problem is simple butsomewhat brutal: we're not going to do failover as such.

We're still including basic support for failover in our NFS serverenvironment, things like virtual fileserver IPs and a naming conventionfor ZFS pools that includes what fileserver they are part of, but we'renot trying to build any explicit failover support, especially

One of the stories that people tell about SSL on the web is that proper,valid SSL certificates create trust (and thus do all sorts of goodthings, like facilitating Internet commerce). This is, how shall I sayit, not actually true.

Here's how SSL certificates fail to create trust:

• simply having an SSL certificate doesn't mean you're especiallytrustworthy, because anyone can get an SSL certificate.

• you might be able to trust an identity that's guaranteed by SSL,except