I know I just posted something like this, but Dru Lavigne’s got another link collection. The story about dsw is a gem.
Is it a linkpile if I link to someone else’s linkpile?
- Dru Lavigne’s posted another one of her link roundups.
- A cruel Hans Reiser joke buried in a Wikipedia edit. (via)
- The howling void brings news of a virtual C system. It sounds interesting from the description, and at the same time bizarre. C already runs on pretty much every platform ever; it seems strange to have to virtualize it to make it work.
- Update your DNS server.
- An old bug and a crazy bug.
Matthew Dillon is this week’s subject on BSDTalk, with 30 minutes of conversation and lots of Hammer content.
Matthew Dillon has updated his Hammer documentation (pdf), with more details on data integrity and mirroring.
The mid-term evaluation for Google Summer of Code work is coming up for the week of July 7th – meaning it starts tomorrow. If you’re a student or a mentor, read my post on the kernel@ mailing list, and make sure you complete your evaluations befoer the 14th.
(side note: TGEN, where are you?)
‘Rumko’ has posted a 75 euro bounty (that’s something like USD $150 a bunch of dollars) for anyone who updates nataraid in DragonFly; it should be a straightforward change from FreeBSD. The details are available on the Code Bounty page on the wiki, as referenced on the mailing lists.
The 2.0.0.15 update to Firefox seems to have broken it on DragonFly. Hasso Tepper asks: can someone work on a fix? He lacks time, but this needs to work in pkgsrc for our upcoming release.
Matthew Dillon’s posted another update on the state of Hammer. It’s mostly about adding mirroring support now, along with a mention of the 2.0 release coming in 2 weeks.
Jeremy C. Reed pointed at a recent article quoting Intel staff as warning developers to “prepare for thousands of cores”. Matthew Dillon had some thoughts on the issue.
Mayur Bhosle has posted details about his Proportional Scheduler project for the Google Summer of Code.
Just because I don’t think I’ve mentioned it specifically yet: it will not be possible for Hammer to serve as a bootable volume in the 2.0 release. 2.2, definitely.
I’ve been traveling for a few days, so it’s time you break out the bullet points again in an effort to catch up.
Matthew Dillon posted a Hammer summary and warning on the 25th, along with another update today, mostly about mirroring and very large (terabyte!) files. Michael Neumann is also adding to Hammer functionality.
He also did some initial porting work on netgraph from FreeBSD, though there’s some objections. The purpose is to make updating certain utilites easier.
This minor update to ATA support leads to a page with some interesting details about how ATA works.
FreeBSDNews.net has set up a Google calendar for FreeBSD events, though I daresay many of the events will have multiple BSDs represented.
You know how I always post about roguelike games here? The ultimate form of the roguelike has been announced.
Dru Lavigne says “Grs!“. A bonus point to whomever figures out that reference…
Gergo Szakal asked some questions on usage scenarios for Hammer; Matt Dillon answered the questions with enough details that I’m linking to it.
Matthew Dillon’s posted another Hammer update, this one looking forward to pseudo file systems and mirroring, and perhaps a bit farther.
Here’s some BSD and Linux comparisons that happened to come up recently:
First, NetBSD is moving to a 2-clause BSD license. Hubert Feyrer has mention of this, along with a small graph contrasting the word count of the GPL vs. the BSD license used in NetBSD, over time.
KernelTrap has a post up about a position statement from the Linux Foundation that “urge[s] vendors to adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source kernel code.” Compare that to the OpenBSD position on binary blobs.
The June issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with Security being this month’s theme. There’s an article that covers a presentation on my favorite topic, “Building Technical Communities“. The Coverity Report is also interesting as it talks about the Coverity open source analysis and what the parts mean. And it has infoporn, in the form of graphs!
Mayur Bhosle has added a short writeup to the wiki on how to boot a modified DragonFly kernel in VMWare. Appropriate, given his Summer of Code project. There’s always vkernels, too.
More conversations about Hammer capabilites has been going on, on the kernel@ mailing lists, including where Matthew Dillon describes where Hammer’s mirroring concept came from, and the possibilities of growing and shrinking filesystems. (Read to the end.) Also, he’s put up a preliminary paper describing Hammer – what it does, how to use it, and future plans. There’s a section on porting for those who might be interested.
KernelTrap’s still tracking progress, too.
(Apparently Hammer does not need to be in all caps as I’ve been writing it, going by the paper.)
Aggelos Economopoulos has updated his NetMP page on the wiki with a link to recent instructions on testing his changes. For those who haven’t noticed, he’s working on removal of the Big Giant Lock from DragonFly’s networking code.