Re: Real World DragonFlyBSD Hammer DeDup figures from HiFX - Reclaiming more than 1/4th ( 30% ) Disk Space from an Almost Full Drive

2011-07-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
i would be intetested to see how this compares to other dedupliction implementations D On 19/07/2011, at 9:06 PM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Some Copy Paste mistakes in the first one. Hereis the updated one. Hi, Finally I got free after a long busy season to work on my

Re: Xen support in DragonFlyBSD and donation of one VPS for development

2011-06-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
Xen is superior for VPS providers and other types of hosting. Here you need to control the distribution of resources (and cpu time) according to type of client. KVM is superior for other types of virtualization like the testing of applications for developers. Hopefully that gap wont last

Re: Xen support in DragonFlyBSD and donation of one VPS for development

2011-06-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
hi there xen is dominant in vps's but its hardly superior. ibm and redhat have both abandoned leaving it as a kernel fork with limited major developers, it whilst kvm has been merged in to the mainline linux kernel. virtio has also been adopted by virtualbox, so virtio drivers would cover two

Re: SORBS listing

2011-06-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
sorbs are woefull. ive personally dropped them in favour of the numerous more helpfull alternatives... Dean On 25/06/2011, at 10:24 AM, Peter Avalos pe...@theshell.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:18:16PM +, Chris Turner wrote: for someone 'authorized' for this kind of fixup

Re: DragonflyBSD on Areca w/ HAMMER

2011-05-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
Well, there is a possibility to add and remove volumes other than the root volume, but IMHO it's still considered experimental. In combination with LVM you could emulate expanding and shrinking of a Hammer filesystem. In my case, the underlying raid card can expand the volumes it presents to

DragonflyBSD on Areca w/ HAMMER

2011-05-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Guys Im thinking about reloading my home file server with dragonflybsd. Mainly so i can take advantage of the rather awesome looking HAMMER filesystem. My home server has an Areca 1260 SAS raid card, which is reported as being supported by the arcmsr man page. Im looking for