FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Released

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The FreeBSD developers just announced the release of an official snapshot of the upcoming FreeBSD 5.0 which should be expected in November. Time to try out amazing new feature like background fsck, FFS snapshots, KSC, devfs, SMPng and many more. Check the Release Notes for detailed information." Read on for a list of ISO mirrors, too.

Thanks to AEtherSPOON, you can spare the main servers and use one of these FTP mirrors to grab the ISO:

• ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
• ftp://ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/

Comments

Re:background fsck

[ChadN]

The design of the BSD file system, when using "softwrites", is specifically engineered to handle this. It does require a rather sophisticated fsck (and one that is aware of how softwrites works). On the other hand, this also removes some of the complexity of the file system (which is not to say it isn't tricky code, but tricky in a different way from, say, a journaled filesystem)