My problem with the term 'web spider' is that I wind up using it to meantwo related but different things, mostly because I don't know of a goodterm for the second one.

One sense of the term is that a web spider is any reasonably autonomousprogram that navigates around the web, poking web URLs, regardless ofwhat it is doing. If you automatically crawl a site and there is not ahuman sitting there supervising you, you're a web spider.

(By this definition

We would like to use ZFS in a new fileserver design , but we may not be able to. This is because ZFS incurrent versions of Solaris has a problem in production environments,namely: if ZFS ever can't write to any pool, it panics your entiremachine . It doesn't matter how many other pools are fine, and itdoesn't matter what else is running on the machine; down it goes.

(It also doesn't matter if the pool is redundant or not;