Category: Committed Code

Matthw Dillon recently outlined the three major steps in his virtual kernel programming; the first step was done.  The second now appears to be in progress, if not complete.

fsck(8) in DragonFly now can handle filesystems containing millions of directories.  Matthew Dillon added this support because he happens to have 23 million directories laying around on a single volume.

YONETANI Tomokazu has added support for disk suspension for saving power.

Matthew Dillon has created a program called ‘ecc‘, specifically for checking for memory errors.  It’s limited to AMD64 memory controllers for now, and has some other caveats.

Sascha Wildner has updated timezone data!  Yeah, slow news day.

The BSDStats.org statistics script is now in DragonFly. It’s not enabled by default; the following two lines in /etc/periodic.conf are needed to activate it.

monthly_statistics_enable="YES"
monthly_statistics_report_devices="YES"

A wierd bug in bmake, pkgsrc (and NetBSD’s) version of make, would occasionally make it difficult to kill a make process with a Ctrl-C.  Matthew Dillon found the bug, a fix for it, and a suggested fix for NetBSD, too.

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has imported a newer version of OpenSSH.  Along with this, he pointed out that the current method of importing 3rd-party code into DragonFly could be made much simpler by using CVS vendor tags.

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has imported – but not yet hooked into the system – gcc 4.1.1.

Some changes Matthew Dillon made lately will cause some harmless warnings at shutdown.

Peter Avalos has switched DragonFly to use bsdtar, though CNU tar will still be available through the next release, and always available from pkgsrc.

Victor Balada Diaz has imported BIND 9.3.2-P1.

Matthew Dillon has committed a number of improvements to nullfs put together by him and Joerg Sonnenberger. The biggest changes are that nullfs can now be mounted recursively, and does not have to have a distinct mounting path; e.g. mount ‘anywhere’.

Peter Avalos has updated libarchive and bsdtar to version 1.3.1. This leads to the question: should GNU tar be replaced with bsdtar, in DragonFly?

Matthew Dillon has added documentation of how to use cpdup for incremental backups, and some scripts that show useful examples.

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has imported CVS 1.12.13.

Peter Avalos has finished making all of src/games WARNS6 clean.  (i.e no warning messages from the compiler even when it’s set to the highest warning level)  It was a pretty big task, too. (etc. etc. etc.).

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has fixed a recently-discovered BIND security problem.

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has imported OpenSSL 0.9.8c, which fixes a recent security issue.

Matthew Dillon, in his effort to create virtual kernels, is renaming the kernel functions malloc(), free(), and realloc(). (They’ll be prefixed with a ‘k’.) The procedure’s happening already.