Comments on: DragonFly 5.6 release candidate 1 tagged

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:34:52 +0000

@Justin

I have a master/slave HAMMER1 setup on top of LUKS

Cheers,

Laurent

By: OpenBSD

OpenBSD — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 05:22:08 +0000

Wow, Great News;-)

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 03:23:23 +0000

In reply to Laurent. I don't know what you are doing with HAMMER1, so I can't tell you if HAMMER2 will work... you will have to compare yourself. I realize that's not a very exciting answer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:37:49 +0000

It’s nice to see continued stabilization of hammer2 and the 5.x series. If DragonflyBSD had booted on my Dell desktop earlier this year (it unfortunately crashed when initialising the network card), then I’d be using it much more. As it is, I keep installing on older hardware while hoping Linux cleans up systemd/dbus or DragonflyBSD works as a replacement.

Compared to btrfs and zfs I like the approach of hammer2. It must be very difficult to design a reliable high-performance feature-rich filesystem in layers without lumping everything together into one opaque mass of complexity. Thanks for all the work.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:10:12 +0000

Good news, thanks Justin ! ?

Is HAMMER2 master/slave setup already on par with HAMMER1 ? My such HAMMER1 setup is working well, but seeing HAMMER2 becoming the default filesystem, I am tempted to migrate everything to it :)

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:48:10 +0000

I think it was FranÃ§ois Tigeot who did the original Daly benchmarks back 7 years ago.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/

I was someone would update the Dfly vs Linux perf charts, since they are painfully dated.

(I would but don’t have the expertise to run a proper comparison)