Patrick Marchand <m...@patrickmarchand.com> wrote: > 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. >
Any time. Either this private email or at my work predr...@cs.cmu.edu I wish I was a bit closer to Montreal to come to your monthly meeting. I love Quebec and Montreal in particular. > > 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. > I am not sure that I am following. How is DF NFS server related to OpenBSD (if I understand correctly) virtualization. Are you trying to store OpenBSD vmm images on the NFS share exported from a DF server? That is a really, really bad idea. https://marc.info/?l=dragonfly-users&m=140384130921709&w=2 > > 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. > 12 TB is the sweet spot when it comes GB/dollar for platter HDDs. Predrag > Regards
