I can’t keep up with all the things to post.  I desperately want to clear my inbox, so here’s a week’s worth of posts all smushed together.  Enjoy!

• Naoya Sugioka’s tmpfs work is almost ready to go.
• Francois Tigeot is looking to find supported RAID hardware for DragonFly; the LSI1068e isn’t useable.  Freddie Cash listed a number of different and fully supported cards, and Francois listed some other potential choices.
• While talking about hardware, Steve O’Hara-Smith reported excellent results with a particular Atom 330-based board and DragonFly.
• Stathis Kamperis has added to ‘hammer snapls’ output; an example is in his submit@message.
• The 2.6 release of DragonFly, scheduled for March, will have version 4 of HAMMER.  2.4 has version 2.  Upgrading from version 2 to 4 can happen in place, live, and only needs to happen once per volume, not per PFS.  That’s about as easy as it gets.  More details are available.
• The default sshd config has been updated; this shouldn’t affect your normal operations unless you’re using one of the mentioned options.
• Oliver Fromme linked to more discussion of SSD durability.
• Also, Matthew Dillon posted more notes and benchmark numbers for his swapcache work.  There’s been some side benefits too.  A man page for swapcache is now available.
• Aggelos Economopoulos’s libevtr has been added, for event tracing.  He’s posted some additional notes on this work-in-progress.
• We now have /var/log/daemon, too.
• Notes on prepping for Google Summer of Code 2010 from the GSOC Discussion list; I don’t know if that link is readable for nonsubscribers.
• The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD is out at the end of this short month.  Dru writes good books.
• Did you know FreeCiv (a Civilization clone, of sorts) is playable in a web browser?  Goodbye free time!  Details are available at my favoritest game site.

Phew.