Hi, On 11/17, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Patrick Marchand <m...@patrickmarchand.com> wrote: > > 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. Thanks !
> > 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 MirageOS and PXE booted OpenBSD is what I really want to play with, but well see as I go along, breaking stuff is kind of the idea here. > > > > 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. As it's more for an experiment and maybe some bsd systems work and it will be running in my room, I started with a 1TB ssd.
