DragonFly – DragonFly BSD Digest

2022/11/10

dsynth without stopping

If you have a bulk build of packages happening with dsynth(1), you can now add – literally, that’s the command – to the package list without interrupting the build.

2022/09/152022/09/15

uwtwn(4) update

If you are using urtwn(4) for your USB network connection, it now supports the Edimax EW-7811Un chipset? model?.

2022/09/102022/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2022/09/10

Yay, another week that overflowed with links!

2022/09/092022/09/08

Moving dsynth

If you’re moving your dsynth build to a different machine, there’s now a ‘list-system’ directive that lets you recreate the same setup in a new place.

2022/08/232022/08/22

EFI firmware updates on DragonFly

It’s not possible right now, but there’s people looking to implement it.

2022/08/08

Cleaning up a HAMMER drive

Predrag Punosevac has some notes on how he cleaned up some HAMMER drives and freed up half his disk space.

2022/07/25

fetch and timeouts

This will matter most to you if your connection to the Internet is poor: fetch(1) now will time out on data transfers too.

2022/07/222022/07/21

I mentioned a new committer for DragonFly, Sergey Zigachev, recently. He hasn’t shown in the commit logs for DragonFly directly – cause he’s fixing up dports. I’m mentioning that because the amount of work that goes into dports to keep all those ports working on DragonFly is separate and unseen – but necessary.

2022/07/11

New committer: Sergey Zigachev

Welcome Sergey Zigachev, new DragonFly committer who has already committed an amdgpu fix.

2022/07/052022/07/05

A debug difference

If you pay attention to your daily security run emails on your DragonFly system, you may see entries like this:

+nlookup() at nlookup+0x623 0xffffffff806eff13
+kern_rmdir() at kern_rmdir+0x25 0xffffffff80706db5
+sys_rmdir() at sys_rmdir+0x4c 0xffffffff80706f0c
+syscall2() at syscall2+0x11e 0xffffffff80bd9f9e

I see it on the machine where I run this Digest, as the caching mechanism adds and deletes files rapidly. Matthew Dillon has placed it behind a sysctl, so your messages log will be a little less noisy by default.

2022/06/29

makefs(8) now supports HAMMER2

makefs(8) now supports HAMMER2 on DragonFly, so you can create HAMMER2 file system images, same as a CD image or a DOS disk.

2022/06/28

Hetzner cloud and DragonFly

When you are setting up a DragonFly machine on Hetzner, pay attention to this bug report for dhcp setup. The short answer is “use dhcpcd”.

2022/06/21

rEFInd design for all the BSDs

Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs – including DragonFly.

2022/06/172022/06/14

Closing credit

DragonFly developer Tuxillo has done something notable by its absence: cleaned up a lot of old bug reports. That’s usually an unseen and unthanked task, so here’s credit for it.

2022/06/152022/06/14

Two versions, both right

An interesting thought: since HAMMER2 is intended to be a multi-master file system, it has to figure out – and quickly – which is the most up to date versions of any given file. That means you could have multiple versions of a file existing at the same time until that decision is made. That wouldn’t be visible from a user perspective.

2022/06/102022/06/09

DragonFly 6.2.2 out

Hopefully there’s a new ISO/img on the mirrors for DragonFly 6.2.2 by the time you read this – or you can just update your installation. The changelog is short, because this is a bugfix-level release. Also, don’t forget there’s a new set of binary packages out; update that too if you haven’t.

2022/06/092022/06/08

Category: DragonFly