On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 10:10:01PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 14 Jul 2018 at 19:50:03 (+1000), Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 05:59:58PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > On 07/13/18 16:36, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 07:53:01PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > While a brutal analogy, it makes a point that can be applied to all > > > > > computers -- devise strategies, invest in resources, and implement > > > > > procedures that facilitate system roll-out, migration, and disaster > > > > > recovery. This is a goal I have pursued over the years. > > > > > > > > zfs send (and of course filesystem snaphotting) ftw! > > > > (I'm just learning about zfs btw, intending a home rollout in the > > > > coming weeks.) > > > > > > ZFS is killer technology. zfs-fuse is sawed off. ZOL rocks, but the > > > license keeps it out of Debian. We'll see if > > > and when btrfs catches up. > > > > (Do you know why your mail client (or perhaps server) wraps at 115 > > chars? 72 or 69 or even 80 would be much better...) > > Your own mail client is doing this. You need to find out how to set > the wrapping value. In mutt, you might add the line > > set reflow_wrap=80
Sweet! Very informative. Daŋkə schön :) > to your configuration file. (Seems unlikely though, as your client > appears not to report itself, as mutt would do.) > > What's actually contained in David's email is: > > "ZFS is killer technology. zfs-fuse is sawed off. ZOL rocks, but the " > "license keeps it out of Debian. We'll see if and when btrfs catches up." > > (I put the quotation marks round each line.) Note the space at the end > of the first line, which indicates that the next line is a continuation > of this one. > > Why is this happening? Because David's email header contains: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > It's the format=flowed that's making *your* email client reflow > the text as required, but unfortunately to ~115 character lines > rather than what you would prefer. > > Cheers, > David. >
