Hello, On 11/15, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Patrick Marchand wrote: > > I'll be playing around with DragonflyBSD Hammer2 (and multiple offsite > > backups) for a home NAS over the next few weeks. I'll probably do a > > presentation about the experience at the Montreal BSD user group > > afterwards. It does not require as many ressources as ZFS or BTRFS, > > but offers many similar features. > > > > Been there, done that! Cool ! I might ping you off-list with questions when I get to it.
> H2 lacks built in backup mechanism. I was hoping that H2 will get some > kind "hammer mirror-copy" of H1, or "zfs send/receive". My server is > still on H1 and I really enjoy being able to continuously back it up. > That's the only thing I am missing in H2. On the positive note H2 did > get support for boot environment manager last year. > > https://github.com/newnix/dfbeadm > > Also DF jails are stuck in 2004 or something like that. I like their > NFSv3. I'm not planning on using jails much, instead I'll be using the DFly NFS with OpenBSD to experiment with virtualization. > DragonFly which gets it software RAID discipline through old > unmaintained FreeBSD natacontrol utility. Hardware RAID cards are not > frequently tested and community seems to be keen on treating DF as a > desktop OS rather than a storage workhorse. Having said that HDD are > cheap this days and home users probably don't need anything bigger than > a 12TB mirror. I dont store much anyways, so I'll see as I go. Regards
