From: justin Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:39:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Cleanup of news for 2.4 release coming soon, and moving some material to history X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/ab47c073b6ebd598a699e8a8b04ac0942d4dc96c Cleanup of news for 2.4 release coming soon, and moving some material to history --- diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index c63646a5..96e8f43f 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -1,25 +1,20 @@ ## Ongoing DragonFly News +### 2.4 release soon + +The DragonFly 2.4 release is anticipated in September 2009. The [[2.2 release|release22]], including the new [[Hammer|hammer]] filesystem is still available. + +### Summer of Code 2009 participation + +DragonFly participated in Google's [Summer of Code](http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/dragonflybsd) program for 2009. Sample code from the completed student projects is available [from Google's repository](http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/dragonflybsd). +
-News from the DragonFly Digest +More news from the DragonFly Digest
- -### 2.2.1 released - 27 April 2009 - -The [[new 2.2 release|release22]] includes [[Hammer|hammer]], a filesystem that includes instant crash recovery, -multi-volume file systems, data integrity checking, fine grained history retention, and the ability to -mirror data to other volumes. It has undergone extensive stress-testing and is considered production-ready! - -### Summer of Code participation - -DragonFly participated in Google's [Summer of Code](http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/dragonflybsd) program. Sample code from the completed student projects is available [from Google's repository](http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/dragonflybsd). - - - ## What is DragonFly BSD? DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating system as BSD and Linux @@ -27,26 +22,7 @@ and is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs. DragonFly gives the BSD base an opportunity to grow in an entirely different direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series. -From 2003 (when DragonFly first forked from FreeBSD), to early 2007, -the DragonFly project focused on rewriting most of the major kernel -subsystems to implement required abstractions and support mechanics -for the second phase of the project. This involved a great deal of work -in nearly every subsystem, particularly the filsystem APIs and kernel core. -During all of this we have managed to keep the system updated with regards -to the third party applications and base system utilities needed to make -any system usable in production. We have also adopted the PkgSrc system for -management of all non-base-system third-party applications in order to pool -our resources with other BSD projects using the system. - -In the 2007-2008 time-frame a new filesystem called HAMMER was developed -for DragonFly. HAMMER sees its first light of day in the July 2008 -2.0 release. This filesystem has been designed to solve numerous issues -and to add many new capabilities to DragonFly, such as fine-grained -snapshots, instant crash recovery, and near real-time mirroring. -The filesytem is also intended to serve as a basis for the clustering -work that makes up the second phase of the project. - -The second phase of the project is now upon us. The DragonFly project's +The DragonFly project's ultimate goal is to provide native clustering support in the kernel. This involves the creation of a sophisticated cache management framework for filesystem namespaces, file spaces, and VM spaces, which @@ -58,6 +34,6 @@ internet (though the security of such clusters itself might be in doubt, the first and most important thing is for systems donating resources to not be made vulnerable through their donation). - +For more information, visit the [[History|history]] page.