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Did you try DragonFlyBSD? It had some really cool features. I wonder how it's doing these days, and if it's equally viable as a daily driver.
by lambdaba 5y ago
Did you try DragonFlyBSD? It had some really cool features. I wonder how it's doing these days, and if it's equally viable as a daily driver.
- vermaden 5y agoThe only thing that 'excites' me in DragonflyBSD is their HammerFS - which works and its OK - but its not as usable and simple as manipulating ZFS with zfs(8) and zpool(8) commands ... Besides that I do not see anything special on DragonflyBSD ... I have read that they have very sophisticated and fast SMP implementation ... but a lot things just are absent there - like on OpenBSD land. No virtualization for example ... while FreeBSD has *VirtualBox* and *Bhyve* and *Xen DOM0* ... *WINE* probably does not work (or does not work well) as last WINE commits for DragonflyBSD are from almost a decade ago: - https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=DragonFly https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=search&h=HEAD&st=c... FreeBSD also has *VNET Jails* while DragonflyBSD only has 'classic' Jails. FreeBSD comes with GEOM for storage which is just great - https://is.gd/bsdstg https://is.gd/bsdstg - more here. I myself also wrote *lsblk(8)* implementation for FreeBSD - this is also missing on DragonflyBSD. Hope that helps.
- lambdaba 5y agoI too was interested in HammerFS. Thanks for the perspective, I'll ask around here at some point about DragonFly users, they must be out there :).
- vermaden 5y agoI like HammerFS offline deduplication which is great for systems with low or 'normal' amount of RAM. I would like to see that implemented in ZFS but I think it will not gonna happen :)