DWiki 's comment system is acceptable as it stands (the proof is in thepudding, in that some people are willing to use it), but it needs to beimproved. Specifically, it's been clear to me for a while that thereshould be 'your name' and 'your website' fields so that people canconveniently identify themselves.

(And so I can have a better idea of who's leaving comments. The current DWiki comment system dates to when it was a half-hearted

Here is an issue I have been thinking about recently: how do you want tohandle ZFS in a SAN environment, especially one in with relatively lowdata rates such as, oh, anything based on gigabit Ethernet?

The problem is that ZFS and SANs have a small conflict. ZFS wants totalk to raw disks and do RAID internally so that it can do its specialmagic, but SANs want you to let the backends do as much RAID work aspossible to preserve overall bandwidth. If you do mirroring in ZFS

The corollary of the funding capture issue isthat the only way for an anti-spam scheme involving money to work is forthe people receiving email to pay for it; only then are the economicinterests kept aligned. Naturally this is not very popular with peoplegetting spammed, which helps to explain the enduring popularity ofproposed schemes where someone else pays.

Unfortunately, this creates a perverse incentive that's familiarfrom the anti-virus world: if spam goes away, so do the anti-spamorganizations. Their