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DragonFly BSD Releases Version 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the beautiful-bugs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.0 has been released! It includes HAMMER, DragonFly's brand-new file system supporting advanced features like history, snapshots and various other cool things. Will it become the new ZFS? Since it is BSD licensed it could also be integrated into various other operating systems."

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  1. Stop! by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    HAMMER-time!

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    1. Re:Stop! by red_dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

      HAMMER-time!

      Yes, but which HAMMER-time? HAMMER-atime, HAMMER-ctime, or HAMMER-mtime?

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      In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
  2. Re:Another filesystem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, because a bunch of douchebags keep making them all under licences which do not allow for proper intergration into other operating systems and because HAMMER is designed for distributed filesystem work, a field where there are limited existing systems.

  3. Re:VirtualBox? by creepynut · · Score: 4, Informative

    VirtualBox has some issues with FreeBSD.

    I tried to install a recent release of FreeBSD which ended up in frequent hangs related to the network adapter.

    Changing the network adapter type seems to fix the problem.

  4. bsdtalk interview with Matthew Dillon by stsp · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want to know more about the hammer file system, check http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2008/07/bsdtalk154-matthew-dillon.html

  5. Re:Another filesystem? by Renegade88 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you talking about ZFS under the CDDL which is considered GPL-incompatible and thus can't be used by Linux?

    So whose fault is that? ZFS has been and continues to be adopted by other operating systems. The GPL is a manifestation of a polical agenda and the inability to incorporate ZFS is a consequence. That is Linux's problem, not the folks that release their open-source filesystems under the licenses of their choosing.

    Just because somebody doesn't buy into Stallman's agenda doesn't mean they are a douchebag.