Comments on: Hammer and the future https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/05/hammer-and-the-future/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Wed, 11 May 2011 10:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Rahul https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/05/hammer-and-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-42887 Wed, 11 May 2011 10:35:18 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=7733#comment-42887 “HAMMER2 has no ‘atime’ support… The OS is expected to implement a devfs for the device space (the only space where atime is really used).

Hm… it used to be that atime was used to detect new mail in mboxes. Has everyone switched to maildir or webmail now?

A while ago, Linux switched from atime to relatime. It seems a good idea — all the benefits of atime, but significantly faster.

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/05/hammer-and-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-42885 Wed, 11 May 2011 01:27:13 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=7733#comment-42885 End of life is what things like Windows XP are experiencing. A better phrase would be “developing”.

]]> By: Petr Janda https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/05/hammer-and-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-42884 Wed, 11 May 2011 01:24:40 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=7733#comment-42884 Maybe “obsolete” wasn’t the right word – more like – “end of life”.

]]> By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/05/hammer-and-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-42883 Wed, 11 May 2011 01:08:55 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=7733#comment-42883 Obsolete would imply that all those features are no longer useful. It’s going to work the same as before with snapshots, mirroring, history, etc, but he’s changing the underlying data format to handle multi-master work better. That’s all.

I’m really interested in using the mirror capability; I think even using it locally could let you do some neat things with SSDs or even with tmpfs systems…

]]> By: Petr Janda https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2011/05/05/hammer-and-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-42882 Wed, 11 May 2011 00:56:23 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=7733#comment-42882 1) A little disappointed that HAMMER is already obsolete and needs a “complete rewrite”
2) Quotas: I thought the goal was to implement it in the VFS layer?

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