My biggest interest in DragonFlyBSD is hammer storage, while I of course appreciate the general hard work hw support and general usage does not suite most of my needs, especially when I start using NixOS/GuixSD with the wonderful idea of having declarative/functional systems that's the future of ANY OS IMVHO but hammer by itself is fantastic.<p>It deserve a future not different than SSH.<p>On GNU/Linux I "mimic" it with a classic poor man's solution (mdraid+LUKS+LVM+nilfs2), in the past I've used zfs first on OpenSolaris (SXDE/CE/Indiana) and after even on GNU/Linux but while remain a fantastic pioneer hammer being a logged fs is far superior.<p>Thanks so for the hard work!
I’m a big fan of DragonflyBSD and for all who don’t know DragonflyBSD well, here’s my summary of the OS when v5.0 was released [1]<p>It really doesn’t get the recognition it desires. It’s has highly advanced features and performance and frankly more people should be using it.<p>Given the recent ZFS/FreeBSD news - I’d love more people to adopt DragonflyBSD for its Hammer2 filesysten.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484735" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484735</a>
Are there benchmarks that show Hammer2 faster than a decently configured ZFS setup? What’s it offer that ZFS and snapshots and the like doesn’t? I’m not trying to start a flame war just curious
Just myself trying to fit the various *BSD's in my mind, I found this[0] which might be helpful:<p><pre><code> [...] each one has a specific purpose.
OpenBSD security,
FreeBSD more desktop/server,
NetBSD “run on anything and everything”,
DragonFlyBSD scaling and performance.
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[0] <a href="https://itsfoss.com/why-use-bsd/" rel="nofollow">https://itsfoss.com/why-use-bsd/</a>
Every time I read about DragonFly I’m never quite sure what it can do that’s different than other OSes that makes it interesting. The best I can tell it’s just that some of the subsystems are different and it’s more of an experiment for under the hood OS features.
I had no idea what dragonofly is, it looks to be an experimental BSD based OS
<a href="https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release54/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release54/</a><p><pre><code> DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems
as other BSD-derived systems and Linux. It is based on the
same UNIX ideals and APIs and shares ancestor code with
other BSD operating systems. DragonFly provides an
opportunity for the BSD base to grow in an entirely
different direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD,
NetBSD, and OpenBSD series.
DragonFly includes many useful features that differentiate
it from other operating systems in the same class.</code></pre>