Lazy Reading for 2018/12/30

Last of the year!

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/29

A big reading week. Enjoy!

Lazy Reading for 2018/12/23

Merry almost Christmas!  I hope you like reading, because I’m linking to some large collections of text.

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/22

I had a lot of tabs to close, if you can’t tell.

Lazy Reading for 2018/12/16

I’m not planning a holiday gift guide this year, though they are fun to do.  You can always check previous ones; I try to link to stores rather than individual items.

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/15

I think/hope I cleared my backlog of BSD links.

HAMMER2 update on the way

Matthew Dillon’s been working on “reliable on-media topology” for HAMMER2.  If you had a crash at just the right time with HAMMER2, you wouldn’t lose data but you might have to do some manual cleanup.  (Don’t ask me the steps; never happened to me.)  With these changes, that doesn’t happen any more.  It’s present now in -master and will be in what should be DragonFly 5.4.1 by the end of the year.  He has a post to users@ that goes into better detail.   If you want way too much detail, you can check the commits.

Three related notes: snapshots are now faster, the HAMMER2 design document has been updated to the tune of 400+ new lines, and yes, you can encrypt your root HAMMER2 filesystem, and have been able to for a while.