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Posted on 2023/06/14
nvme(4) update you don’t want to see

the nvme(4) driver now prints a detailed message about I/O errors.  It’s great that it does that, hope you never see it.

2 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2023/06/09
HAMMER2 and offline actions

You can now clean up, grow, and destroy HAMMER2 volumes, even when they are not mounted.  There’s also an emergency mode, though I’m not clear on when you’d invoke it.

5 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly, Hammer
Posted on 2023/06/02
Making smbios visible

For some reason smbios device support always gave me trouble on every laptop I worked on for the 2000s.  So, this support for smbios identification on EFI-only boots is good news to me.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2023/03/30
Silencing the console

If you absolutely, must shut up your console, kern.kprintf_logging=0.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/03/11
backlight in DragonFly

backlight, both the generic backlight driver and control tool, has been ported to DragonFly.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/03/092023/03/08
TeX and DragonFly

TeX Live 2023 is available on DragonFly.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/03/042023/03/03
New mirror

There’s a new DragonFly mirror in Portugal, noted on the mirrors page.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/03/03
pvscsi(4) added

DragonFly now has pvscsi(4), a virtual SCSI driver.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/02/262023/02/25
Chacha with me Doodles

The random number generator method chacha20 has been ported from FreeBSD to DragonFly.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/02/22
Full loader paths

Kernel modules now report their full, not relative, file path.  A quietly useful idea.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/02/19
Oh, for boot

I did not know that /usr/src/stand is where /boot comes from.  Now we both know.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/02/18
Read-onlfying

Some tips on creating/booting a read-only DragonFly system.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/02/13
Driver hint

Interpreted through a related commit: DragonFly might have a paravirtual SCSI driver soon?

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/02/03
doing dsynth

A short explainer on dsynth(1) options.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/01/312023/01/29
Adventure again

Adventure(6) the original and Colossal Cave the remake 50 years later.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Lazy Reading
Posted on 2023/01/29
GPT tip

The installer should always take care of this for you, but if for some reason you need it: formatting a disk with gpt.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/01/242023/01/23
Upgrade explanation

The hows and lesser-known whys of DragonFly upgrades.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/01/222023/01/21
New User Notes

Will Senn just started using DragonFly and he wrote up his experience.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/01/21
Slight booting speedup

Messing with boot0cfg(8) might shorten your boot time.  Be careful.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly
Posted on 2023/01/18
X hang fixes

If your X session hangs when exiting the window manager, here’s some suggestions.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly

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