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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.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday October 18 2017, @04:43PM (1 child)
I'm not a BSD user, but I sort of like to follow the news, so I know that, e.g., OpenBSD is aimed at security, and PCBSD is aimed at end users coming from MSWindows.
Who is DragonFly aimed at? I know it's one of the earlier BSDs. My guess is that the target audience is the target is BSD users who want to experiment with new features...but that's a guess.
What would *really* make me interested in BSD is a system with read-write support for ext4, but I haven't seen such. (Read support, yes, but that doesn't suffice. Even read/write support for ext3 would be quite interesting.)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Celestial on Thursday October 19 2017, @11:11AM
The primary goal of DragonFly BSD is to be a "performant reliable bare metal server operating system." Thus, the HAMMER1 and HAMMER2 file systems.
However, some people use it as their personal computers' operating system as well, including the lead developer.