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DragonFly BSD 5.0 Released

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-the-BSD-desktop dept.

Celestial writes:

The DragonFly BSD developers have released version 5.0 of the operating system. The big changes are the introduction of the HAMMER2 file system, video driver updates, and better support for both AMD Ryzen and EFI.

DragonFly version 5.0 brings the first bootable release of HAMMER2, DragonFly's next generation file system.

[...] Preliminary HAMMER2 support has been released into the wild as-of the 5.0 release. This support is considered EXPERIMENTAL and should generally not yet be used for production machines and important data. The boot loader will support both UFS and HAMMER2 /boot. The installer will still use a UFS /boot even for a HAMMER2 installation because the /boot partition is typically very small and HAMMER2, like HAMMER1, does not instantly free space when files are deleted or replaced.

A lengthy, in-depth technical design document of the new HAMMER2 file system can be found here.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @06:17AM (#583821)

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