On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:33:28PM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote: > > What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or > participate in its development by following this list? Technical > features, methodologies, something about the community? I suspect the > HAMMER filesystem to be the popular choice, but what other features > affect or do you see affecting your day to day life as an > administrator, developer, or [insert use case here], now or in the > future?
I was a FreeBSD user back in 2003; I have seen the announce of DragonFly in one of the mailing lists and watched its progress from afar. I liked some of the early ideas. A new SMP implementation based on the real hardware topology was full of performance promises and since I have a small historical interest in VAXclusters and VMS, I found the SSI goal really appealing. I never really used DragonFly before 1.6, when one of my FreeBSD machines kept crashing (known kernel bug) and I had to find a lasting solution. Since then, I have gradually put DragonFly on production machines, one at a time. I now use it on customer-facing servers and do not regret it. You hear very fast when a mail server is down. What really impressed me is the stability of the system and Hammer. I've never lost any data with DragonFly; even in the worst cases it is possible to synchronize your work with a known good historical state of the filesystem and carry on. The good atmosphere of the community is also a big plus imho. I have not had to refrain from reporting bugs for fear of beeing chastised and most of them are fixed rapidly. I really can see constant progress. So far so good :) -- Francois Tigeot