On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Bernard Mentink <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently I am running PC-BSD on a Sony Vaio Laptop with Gnome desktop and > it runs quite well. > I was wondering about re-installing DFly on it instead. Can anyone tell me > if I am going to get performance increase(i.e better kernel) and faster file > system with Hammer versus ZFS? > > I need to have lot's of incentive to make the move ;) It'll be fast. Really fast. SUPER FAST. The kernel will have so many megaflops that the chassis of your laptop will actually start to vibrate and rise above the surface of your desk, quietly humming. It'll hover there, causing pens and small children to rattle in the vicinity, until you reach out with a wondering hand and try to open the DVD-ROM cause you left your favorite Chet Faker CD in there and you don't want anything bad to happen to it and then BOOM. The mere act of brushing against it will upset the careful equilibrium set by Hammer's rebalancing mechanism, and the raw power unleashed will cause your laptop to shoot off through the wall of your home, through the nice fence your neighbor put up last year, and right through some branches on that odd tree that always takes forever to pop out leaves each spring, making you suspect it might not be that healthy but it's not on your property so you can't do much about it. Your laptop, shooting through space by now, leaves a sort of green trailing afterimage that persists for several minutes and happens to match the green in the DragonFly logo *exactly*. I realize this is a nonsense answer, and hope that you do too. However, there's no way to tell from what you wrote what model computer you have, what "speed" it's running at now, what you actually do with this computer, or if you can configure xorg and a number of other programs yourself, since PC-BSD does that for you and DragonFly does not. Don't take the above items as questions that I want you to answer so that I can then evaluate your future computer use for you. Download a DragonFly image and start it up - it's 'live' and you can try it out, though it will be somewhat limited.
