Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:54:56 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Graham Todd <gtodd@bellanet.org> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@bonkers.video-collage.com>, efinleywork@efinley.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a new way to hang 7.0 Message-ID: <477E8F10.401@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <477E82E3.6000303@bellanet.org> References: <200801012116.m01LGQhN012860@bonkers.video-collage.com> <200801032334.m03NY7Zd019292@apollo.backplane.com> <477E82E3.6000303@bellanet.org>
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Graham Todd wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: >> DragonFly has a new filesystem called HAMMER in the works which should >> become production ready in a few months. All primary operations work now >> so it is very real, but major pieces still need to be written and others >> need to be rewritten and stabilized. It's in pre-alpha state now and >> will be early-alpha by the DFly 2.0 release later this month. It should >> be in a state that can be ported without having to play constant catchup >> in maybe 2-3 months. This filesystem has full historical capabilities... >> you don't even have to make snapshots per say, just sync, and you can get >> at any data as-of any point in the past with a simple @@<timestamp> >> file/directory name extension. > > Wow, pretty neat. If HAMMER becomes the default filesystem and snapshots > are low cost and easy are they any plans to leverage these features? :-) > If I understand some of the opensolaris work correctly they are > starting to make use of zfs snapshots for upgrades/updates and packaging > systems. There are better lists on which to discuss DragonflyBSD vaporware. Scott
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