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HAMMER2 design document (dragonflybsd.org)
69 points by lorenzfx on April 9, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Nice timing. I just finished installing dragonfly on vultr (http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6828113 (aff link)), following this guide: http://hostingformula.net/how-to-install-dragonflybsd-in-vps...

The only painful parts were: - realizing I needed to go manually unmount the iso in the vultr control panel, since rebooting would otherwise just take me back to the live cd. - needing to host the iso somewhere so I could point vultr at it, not particularly hard, but annoying even for someone like me who's already used to configuring nginx.

I hope more people give dragonfly a chance, hammer seems to me the way filesystems should be. If you just want to try it out, there's a coupon code for $20 dollars of credit floating around for vultr.


I am curious what you use dragonfly for? I have considered trying it for a home file server.


I'm going to try moving the stuff currently hosted on a debian box over to it and see how that experience goes. If everything goes well, I'll see if I can get it working well on my laptop and try to switch over. I'd like to eventually be able to use hammer snapshots as a backup method rather than any specific program.

edit: Oh, I also plan on running a tor relay on the vps.


Any hints for the coupon?


I believe it was SSDVPS. It'll come up if you search for vultr coupon.


Thanks, I now have $27 in credit! I should have grabbed your referral ID. I'm currently installing Debian to test a peculiar configuration but I will definitely use this to have a play with some BSDs.


Come hang out in #dragonflybsd on EFnet, lots of updates from the man himself.




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