DragonFly BSD Release 2.2.1 [LWN.net]

The DragonFly 2.2.1 release is available. "The HAMMER filesystem is considered production-ready in this release; It was first released in July 2008. The 2.2 release represents major stability improvements across the board, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration, and a brand new release infrastructure with multiple target options." DragonFly is a ~~desktop~~ cluster oriented fork of FreeBSD.

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DragonFly BSD Release 2.2.1

Posted May 7, 2009 13:39 UTC (Thu) by perennialmind (subscriber, #45817) [Link]

Should that read "DragonFly is a cluster oriented fork of FreeBSD"?

DragonFly BSD Release 2.2.1

Posted May 7, 2009 22:41 UTC (Thu) by ris (editor, #5) [Link]

> Should that read "DragonFly is a cluster oriented fork of FreeBSD"?

Yes it should. Thanks for the correction.

DragonFly BSD Release 2.2.1

Posted May 7, 2009 13:43 UTC (Thu) by migpc (guest, #24484) [Link]

Dear LWN friends:

The sentence "DragonFly is a desktop oriented fork of FreeBSD" may be considered wrong.

Let me just bring a couple of lines from the main DragonFlyBSD page:
"This filesystem [HAMMER] has been designed to solve numerous issues and to add many new capabilities to DragonFly, such as fine-grained snapshots, instant crash recovery, and near real-time mirroring. The filesytem is also intended to serve as a basis for the clustering work that makes up the second phase of the project."

DragonFlyBSD seems to be more a "cluster oriented" fork of FreeBSD.

Anyway, thanks for bringing DragonFlyBSD news, it's a very interesting operating system, worth to keep an eye on.