David Rhodus posted some initial results with using a 3Ware 9500 RAID controller on DragonFly. The summarized version of the thread is this: transfer rates were 30 MB/s with FreeBSD 5.3, and 152 MB/s with DragonFly.
Rongsheng Fang suggested on users@ that the easy way to track working hardware would be to emulate an OpenBSD trick: sending a dmesg.
New at UnixReview.com: tips on find, that most useful and obfusticated of utilities.
The Donations page on dragonflybsd.org has a number of new entries. Take a look, and help out if you can.
DragonFly apparently doesn’t work (easily) on a 386. This probably only affects 1 person.
ONLamp.com has a new article on sending email securely. In fact, it’s UUCP over SSH, an acronym combo I didn’t think I’d ever type. I think it’s been more than a decade since I’ve even seen a UUCP address.
Registration is open now.
Tom Hummel mentioned AMD Turion 64 laptops as a possible good fit for DragonFly, given their low power and cooling needs.
I have yet to encounter anyone who has bought one of the AMD 64-bit CPUs and been unhappy with the purchase.
Todd Willey announced on the GoBSD mailing list that a new set of pkgsrc prebuilt binaries have been placed on the gobsd.com site.
Matt Dillon mentioned that he hopes to have the next major release of DragonFly out, with journaling included in some form, before Usenix ’05 in mid-April. More info on this plus a stable tag slip are in his post.
In the ongoing discussion about journaling, Dan Melomedman linked to Paul Jarc’s “/fs“.
Matthew Dillon gave a further update on the journaling work, plus he noted (as many had hoped) that there would be no background fsck in DragonFly.
Zera William Holladay was looking for tips on where to find BSD-oriented material for a OS design class; several people replied with references to the “Design and Implementation…” book, other books, and general experience.
While talking about how to implement “undo” for disk journaling, Matthew Dillon also included some data on the relative effect of his journaling work on disk speed so far. (Look at the end of the post.)
Thomas Petazzoni posted a request on the kernel@ list for contributions to the Libre Software Meeting in July, in France.
The BSDCan 2005 schedule is released. (Thanks, BSDNews.)
Sam Smith’s excellent BSD news roundup, this one for February, has appeared on the ONLamp/BSD site.
Matthew Dillon is looking for someone with lots of time and know-how who can take on the userland side of his journaling work. Just read it, and you’ll see.
Matthew Dillon posted his C program for blocking repeated ssh scanners. Garance Drosihn pointed at a similar perl script, while Scott Ullrich modified Matthew Dillon’s script to use pf.
Also, Brian Reichert posted a link to the DROP list, while George Georgalis followed with a link to bogons along with a “sloppy bash script” that blocks by country code.