Matthew Dillon writes that it is back in the system, with a different methodology. Try it if you are running bleeding edge.
Matthw Dillon has unhooked ext2fs from the build temporarily as he disassociates it from the existing UFS code.
Matthew Dillon is planning to start userland VFS work in about a month; this led Andreas Hauser to ask if FUSE could be brought in as for FreeBSD. Csaba Henk, who ported it to FreeBSD, said “yes, but better“!
Sepherosa Ziehau has added a new version of ifconfig, taken from FreeBSD 6. The interface is the same from the user perspective, but is apparently more flexible.
FreeBSD 2.2.9 is released.
YONETANI Tomokazu got a letter from folks at JMicron, looking for someone to work on driver support for their drive controllers under DragonFly. Interested?
While on that topic, Matthew Dillon wrote some notes about device driver writing and the example driver code.
Joerg Sonnenberger forwarded along the announcement that the first quarterly release of pkgsrc for 2006 is out. Notably, there’s nearly 6,000 packages, and these two interesting tips:
As always, we’d like to encourage users of the packages collection to install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day – this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to exploit.
We’d also really appreciate it if people would install the pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey package, and then run the pkgsurvey script for us. This will forward us a list of the packages installed on that machine, and the operating system and release level of the operating system. The results will be kept confidential, but the output will help us analyse the packages that are most used.
Daemon News has an interview of OpenBSD’s Theo deRaadt, where he mentions DragonFly. The last response in the interview is also entertaining.
BSDTalk has a new interview up with Liam Foy, who is porting CARP to NetBSD, created BSDPortal.org, and (most importantly!) also contributes to DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon posted a description of his near-term work that will get us closer to the vaunted Cache Coherency Management System and, incidentally, userspace VFS.
“walt” posted about the upcoming change from 512-byte to 4-kbyte sector size on disks. Apparently, this won’t cause problems.
This week on UnixReview.com: Regular Expressions: Experience Teaches Lessons for Team Projects, Certification: Test Your Knowledge of Wireless Security, Book Review: Nessus, Snort and Ethereal Power Tools, and a review of kdissert.
My fault: the Goals section on the DragonFly BSD website is now moved to a single page under Docs.
Matthew Dillon has removed NQNFS; normal NFSv2/NFSv3 will still work, which is probably the NFS flavors everyone would be using anyway…
Robert Sebastian Gerus found that it is possible to see filenames after deletions, which is an outgrowth of UFS (and a number of other filesystems). If this concerns you, use rm -P to overwrite the data before marking it unused.
IBM developerWorks has a nice article up (by Chris Herborth, former BeOS dev) on using Eclipse as an IDE even with non-Java projects.
New device support is always good: Sepherosa Ziehau and Sascha Wildner have put together a driver for TI acx100/acx111 wireless network cards. It’s been tested with D-Link 520 and 650 cards. (that’s my guess on the product links, there.)
Assuming nobody finds a problem, it’ll be in the system in a week.
The release version of DragonFly has been brought to 1.4.3 to incorporate the recent Sendmail security update, among other things. Bleeding edge code has been brought up to version 1.5.2, because Matthew Dillon has added (after the bump) his potentially destabilizing BUF/BIO code. If you like running Preview, update and plan to stick with it a while until this new technology gets sorted out.
Sascha Wildner sent along a link to “The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin“, a many-part history of Unix.
Several FreeBSD security issues were found recently that also apply to DragonFly: ipsec (DragonFly fix), opie (DragonFly fix), and sendmail (DragonFly fix). The fix for sendmail incidentally brings it to version 8.13.6. David Rhodus has also started to bring in some applicable changes from NetBSD found by the Coverity scan. (Coverity is apparently not accepting any new source collections to scan at this time, so we don’t get it directly.)