http://www.osnews.com/story/20998/DragonFly_BSD_2_2_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?349641 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349641 I really wish it would be ported to other platforms, because Dragonfly is not my cup of tea.

I know it wouldn't be easy, but Matt seems to be very supportive. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?349644 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349644 Yeah, it would be nice if it would become the ZFS or the UFS successor for BSD. Maybe a FUSE version would be a good idea to make it more widely used. Of course, this can't substitute a native version. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reez) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?349654 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349654 for Firewire/USB/Bluetooth seems promising Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?349672 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349672 I wouldn't say that HAMMER would be a good replacement for ZFS (though I haven't done extensive testing of HAMMER like I have of ZFS), but it is a good file system. here are teh baisc goals of HAMMER

Instant or nearly-instant mount. No fsck needed on crash recovery.
• Full history retention with easy access, via the live file-system. That means
being able to CD into snapshots of the file-system and being able to access
previous versions of a file (or directory tree), whether they have been
deleted or not.
• Good performance.
• Queue-less, incremental mirroring.
• Ability to re-optimize the layout in the background, on the live file-system.
• No i-node limitations.
• Extensible media structures to reduce compatibility issues as time
progresses.
• Support for very large file-systems (up to 1 exabyte)
• Data integrity checks, including high-level snapshot tar md5s.
• Not hamstring a clustered implementation, which has its own list of
requirements.
• Not hamstring a remote access implementation.

more info here: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/hammer.pdf

I will do a comparison between ZFS and HAMMER later in the week.Edited 2009-02-18 16:36 UTC Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?349704 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349704 I have been looking forward to a stable release of the HAMMER filesystem. I will be trying it out when I get some free time. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (foldingstock) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?349718 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349718 two good things about HAMMER:
It's a clearer, simpler design and not as complex, as ZFS.

It doesn't suck up as much memory, as ZFS.

If you compare how long the development of these two file systems took and how many problems the ZFS port of FreeBSD had I would say it's the BSD ZFS. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reez) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?349885 http://www.osnews.com/thread?349885 Great! I haven't really had time to play with DragonflyBSD anymore, but I used to use it quite a bit for random odd jobs. Time to upgrade and get involved again. Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsd_geek) Comments