Joerg Sonnenberger has added the just-released OpenSSH version 4.2
Matthew Dillon made a number of journaling-related commits today; in one of them, he included an extended writeup of some of the problems encountered when dealing with multiple transactions forwards – and backwards – in time.
The systems mentioned in a previous post as being ordered for dragonflybsd.org will be “ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe”, which means that they will probably be good choices for supported hardware.
Matthew Dillon’s ordering some new hardware for dragonflybsd.org. Among other improvements, there will be a new machine specifically for building world, kernel, and pkgsrc.
On users@, Andreas Hauser talked a bit about his experience with filesystems, and included some links. Among other things, he pointed at the possibility of NFSv4.
Matthew Dillon listed his two major UFS goals: changing filesystem size, and speedier reboots.
Tomaž Borštnar used ubench to test DragonFly and various FreeBSD systems, and wrote up the results.
Speaking of benchmarks, the fefe.de benchmarks done some time ago may be coming in for a second round of tests. Of course, that blog entry is in German, so I’m going on what Hubert Feyrer said.
If you’ve been running a DragonFly mirror, the BSD Certification Group would like to know your download stats. Several people have quoted healthy numbers. (post them to kernel@dragonflybsd.org, if you have them)
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated groff to version 1.19.1
Matthew Dillon wrote a little more on why he thinks pkgsrc is the best direction for DragonFly.
He also followed up on a separate thread describing the current disk size limits for UFS1. Hiten Pandya added comments, too.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert proposed using cvstrac for bug tracking, and he has set up an example. Scott Ullrich has already been using cvstrac for pfsense. However, Hiten Pandya was intending to set up Bugzilla.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert now has release, development, and preview versions of DragonFly built regularly on his server. In addition, he has the most recent version source for each type available as a .tar.bz2 file, for those who don’t want to grab it through cvsup
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The next release of DragonFly (1.4) will include pkgsrc, as Matthew Dillon described in a recent post. For those of us with 1.2 systems, some work is being done to create binary packages now, to ease the transition. The Wiki has some documentation on using pkgsrc.
Jeremy C. Reed posted his results from building all possible pkgsrc packages on DragonFly. More than half were successful already, and more (since he was building as non-root) should be possible. You can read his full post for details, but here’s a nice little summary:
Build started: Mon Aug 29 19:45:33 2005 GMT
Build ended: Wed Aug 31 03:36:14 2005 GMT
Successfully packaged: 2902
Packages really broken: 1037
Pkgs broken due to them: 1270
Total broken: 2307
Not packaged: 314
Total: 2621
UnixReview.com has a review of the book “Database in Depth“.
Matthew Dillon wrote a small entry on how he goes about merging important fixes back into the Release version of DragonFly.
There’s a petition on bsdnexus.comto bring Codeweavers’ Crossover Office to BSD (meaning FreeBSD, probably).
Update: I’ve traded a few emails with Frank Jahnke, the man behind this work, and I take back every unoptimistic thing I’ve ever said about it.
Matthew Dillon, while looking at a locking problem on chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de, happened to explain a bit about SPECFS and the trouble it causes.
Jeffrey Hsu has committed his new spinlock implementation – the commit message has a short explanation of how it was implemented.