Greetings To GTALUG Talk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Browne via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> To: <myles@gtalug.org>; "Myles Braithwaite" <me@mylesbraithwaite.com>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:14 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] curious... Linux vs BSD ? <snip>
I'm occasionally attracted to take a peek at Dragonfly BSD, as it has been trying to do some substantial reimplementations of some of the internals with particular view to improving performance and supporting clustering. The HAMMER filesystem is one of the interesting bits; some data deduplication capabilities, and a BSD flavour on the "advanced" stuff like snapshotting, journalling, et al.
I'm also intrigued by DragonFlyBSD (dfly). Mainly for the same two reasons that Chistopher Browne cites: 1. great speed, 2. robust HAMMER file system (HAMMER1). Although my project to use dfly has been on hold due to other priorities, I did install dfly on a QEMU / KVM virtual server at www.elastichosts.com. Haven't done much with dfly there yet. The plan is to use dfly for a website (php, postgresql, nginx). I am subscribed to the dfly general discussion list. Mostly just lurking. Very encouraged to see the dfly team respond well, to calls for help with dfly failures, from another list participant who is running an app under dfly on a VM. More than one fix to the dfly virtio drivers has been delivered. It seems that most dfly servers run on bare metal. But I have argued on the dfly list for good dfly support also for QEMU / KVM VMs as they are a good entry point for budget-constrained projects based on dfly. There also are a few people trying to use dfly as a desktop o/s. However, the main thrust of dfly seems to be in the server arena. Steve