It is said that DragonFlyBSD has good performance. In what production scenarios do you all recommend using it?

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I've tried running a gparted live iso to resize it but it does not recognize hammer2, so what exactly is the preferred way to resize hammer2 partitions?

Hey all,

I've been eyeballing DragonflyBSD for a couple years now and I find its concepts very interesting. I've been wanting to try out different operating systems to see if it is a good choice to replace my current OS on my server (FreeBSD). Normally, DragonflyBSD and SmartOS or OmniOS make it to the list. In particular, I like the data integrity stuff that ZFS brings to the table. I know there is some feature overlap with HAMMER2, so I was wondering, how much could I trust my data with HAMMER2? Where would it land on the spectrum of btrfs to ZFS (or UFS)? I do raidz1 right now

what is the difference between the types and is it required? what does the type do?

what is the difference between the dfly type and hammer2 type?

Do you want to try the fastest BSD with a file system fast as a MacBook Pro but with:

• Instant recovery on mount
• Instant snapshots
• Mounted snapshots are writable

You read that right, no more fsck, no recovery procedures, no worries about unexpected power loss! Rollback your dev environment, or file, easily and quickly. This is how easy snapshots are:

/etc/periodic.conf
    daily_snapshot_hammer2_enable="YES"
    daily_snapshot_hammer2_dirs="/"  # optional

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• System Status Dashboard Script
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• Firewall + OpenDNS

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• Primitive flag verification catches simple errors
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I'm running Dragonfly 6.4 and when I call dmesg it's filled up with:

"ttm_check_under_lowerlimit: stub"

About 30,000 lines.

I've traced this to: https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DragonFlyBSD/blob/master/sys/dev/drm/include/linux/kernel.h#L243

Does anyone have any suggestions how to remove this line? Otherwise it's running fine.

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I've installed Dragonfly 6.4 on a Lenovo 240. Most things are running fine (wifi etc.) but the keyboard stops working as soon as X starts. Strangely when I plug in an external USB keyboard that works.

Previously this machine was running FreeBSD. Does anybody have any suggestions?

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Dear all,

I want to try out DragonFly on an (old) MacBookPro5,5 (2009, 13", Core 2 Duo, 2.26 Ghz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M), but I get the above panic message. Each of the offered boot options (safe, without AHCI, ACPI, single, etc.) fail...; a `call dumpsys` yields `1`. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (even with the binary blob NVIDIA driver [version 340]) and macOS High Sierra (patched, dosdude2) work.

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BSD.cafe will be a hub for various tools and services, powered by *BSD.

The first brick is a new Mastodon instance, a gateway to the Fediverse. Registration is open, and the server will be moderated under clear guidelines promoting good behavior and zero tolerance for hate towards anyone. Inclusivity, respect, and constructive dialogue are the key values of this new instance.

The server is currently hosted in Finland on a small VM, based on #FreeBSD. Services are divided into VNET jails, connected in a LAN via a local bridge. A VPN system is also installed but not yet activated to move individual jails to different machines.

Multimedia data and cache are hosted on another physical server (FreeBSD, within a jail), with Cloudflare in front. The aim is to cache and geodistribute data, reducing network traffic on the main VPS.

Reverse proxy (frontend), mail server, media server, and the instance itself are reachable via #ipv6.

The instance starts empty. No unnecessary content was pre-loaded; I want it to grow organically based on users' interests and following. There won't be any preemptive blocks at this stage. Users are encouraged to promptly report anything they find worth flagging.

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I've been working on what I hope is the Next Generation of the Open Source movement.

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See here to read about how Open Source fails in certain serious ways to be properly open and what I propose be done about it:

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I'm also working on some FRT demo projects so people can viscerally feel the difference between FRTs and mere FOSS.

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You can help by:

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Running 6.4-RELEASE on a clean installation.

hammer2(8) mentions pfs upgrade and downgrade, but doesn’t describe the commands, it also doesn’t list commands to list or delete hammer2 snapshots.

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