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kk0sse54
September 3rd, 2008, 03:46 AM
Just wondering has anyone extensively used it before? Haven't read much about it since it seems to fly under the radar a lot but I'm quite interested in trying it, that and MidnightBSD. It uses pkgsrc so that's a plus for me, but I was just interested if there was someone, anyone who knows anything about it as I really can't seem to find much info on it other than the usual it split from FreeBSD became a fork etc etc
cardinals_fan
September 3rd, 2008, 05:05 AM
It's a great project that is definitely going places. Their pkgsrc implementation is a bit screwy, but it's still a fun project to play with. It isn't as stable [yet] as Net, Open, or FreeBSD.
Antman
September 3rd, 2008, 04:47 PM
Grab the LiveDVD they just announced and give it a whirl.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05066
kk0sse54
September 3rd, 2008, 11:27 PM
Grab the LiveDVD they just announced and give it a whirl.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05066

That was exactly what I saw which prompted my curiosity :). What the heck I'll try it out, downloading now...
kk0sse54
December 11th, 2008, 11:18 PM
Necromany :twisted::
Anyways I finally bothered to installed DragonflyBSD instead of just trying out the liveDVD and it was really cool. Probably what's most interesting is the HAMMER filesystem which I think has a ton of potential. For those who don't know what it is http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/hammer.pdf kinda long and probably dry and boring to most people but oh well :p. Anyways was just wondering if anybody else has tried DragonflyBSD recently along with the HAMMER filesystem and what their thoughts were about it.
cardinals_fan
December 12th, 2008, 01:33 AM
HAMMER is amazing. It's really made for systems with massive hard drives, but it's still cool.
kk0sse54
December 12th, 2008, 04:10 AM
From now on I think I'm just going to change the title of all my BSD related threads to "cardinals_fan what's your opinion on <insert BSD topic>" :p
Sorivenul
December 13th, 2008, 01:33 AM
HAMMER is fascinating.
Check out this (http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/01/17/zfs-vs-hammerfs/) article comparing it with Sun's ZFS.
Follow it up with some small corrections (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2008-01/msg00068.html) made by DragonFlyBSD's Matt Dillon.
cardinals_fan
December 13th, 2008, 01:53 AM
From now on I think I'm just going to change the title of all my BSD related threads to "cardinals_fan what's your opinion on <insert BSD topic>" :p
Hey, I like BSD systems :D

HAMMER is fascinating.
Check out this (http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/01/17/zfs-vs-hammerfs/) article comparing it with Sun's ZFS.
Follow it up with some small corrections (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2008-01/msg00068.html) made by DragonFlyBSD's Matt Dillon.
Good articles. I would definitely recommend this (http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/hammer01.pdf) for a good overview.