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

We're still in the process of designing our next generation offileserver architecture, so I've decided to write down what we want outof the design.

• good long term storage management ,as we are likely to keep the architecture for at least five years andprobably more.
• we'd like be able to do highly available storage that has no singlepoint of failure, because we have some filesystems that are crucialto our entire infrastructure.

• we should be able to add special purpose capacity without hugeexpense.