A round of recent bugfixes have been moved into the current Release (1.2). Matthew Dillon lists them in his commit post, plus this version bump includes the recent zlib security fix, as Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert pointed out.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s “crosscheck” site is now available (again). It contains up-to-date source code for multiple BSD operating systems, to allow for easy comparison.
Due to a DNS change, shiningsilence.com was down for a while last night. Sorry about the lack of news!
Speaking of outages, this system will be down during the day on Monday, the 11th, because of an electrical system upgrade.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has commited a fix (passed along by Colin Percival from FreeBSD) for a zlib overflow.
While it would be nigh-impossible to use DragonFly’s journaling implemenation within Linux or another BSD, it would be possible to have other operating systems able to receive the journaled data.
UnixReview.com has a number of new articles:
– A review of the new “MySQL in a Nutshell” book, complete with a link to a sample chapter.
– An examination of the Cisco CCIE certification.
– And, something I didn’t know could be done: tracking the mouse with a shell script.
Matthew Dillon sent out notice of his recent journaling work, which now actually works for mirroring a partition. He sent another update, with more details.
For those readers who didn’t read the original description of journaling, this is different than the usual “fast reboot” version of journaling that other operating systems have. This scheme is intended to allow for rollback to arbitrary spots in disk history, or mirroring of data to other drives or other network locations.
If you’re having trouble with a Serial ATA controller, try setting it in BIOS to “compatibility mode”. This problem has hit a few people.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert put in a security patch for a recently found security issue with bzip2.
UnixReview.com has a new book review up for “Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization“.
DragonFly 1.2 Release has been bumped from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3, probably to catch up on any recent changes brought in from development.
Most third-party software work for DragonFly seems to be happening with pkgsrc these days, but Andreas Hauser is still building packages for DragonFly using the FreeBSD ports system. Pick one of the libc.so.4 directories if you’re running 1.2, or libc.so.5 if you’re on the bleeding edge of DragonFly development.
The scheduler has been rewritten by Matthew Dillon – again! Except this time, it’s very close to the original CSRG implementation. The eventual goal is to allow other schedulers to be used, on the fly.
OSNews has an interview about what’s planned for FreeBSD. Not much bearing on DragonFly, other than it’s interesting to see where the design goals match and diverge.
Matthew Dillon hints that using polling may be a way to get a finicky PCMCIA network card to work.
Jeffrey Hsu has replaced the FreeBSD-based file descriptor allocator with a new algorithm of his own design, apparently influenced by Solaris. It scales like no other.
Hiten Pandya describes ‘makewhatis -o local-manpages.txt
‘ as a quick trick to make a reference list of available utilities.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert is looking for people willing to test his DRM/DRI changes; if you’ve got a 3D card (ATI Radeon, Matrox, etc.), contact him for instructions on testing.
UnixReview.com has an article on some miscellaneous tasks that can be accomplished with some clever shell scripting.