HAMMER2 File-System Gets Stabilization Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HAMMER2 File-System Gets Stabilization Improvements

HAMMER2 file-system improvements have landed hot on the heels of the exciting DragonFlyBSD 3.6 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUzNTI

[sireangelus]

Phoronix: HAMMER2 File-System Gets Stabilization Improvements

HAMMER2 file-system improvements have landed hot on the heels of the exciting DragonFlyBSD 3.6 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUzNTI

ok.. this is nice and all, and everyone is entitled to spend their time as they see best; but besides as servers, why put in all the effort to port kms and gallium etc??? why? wouldn't all those dev hours be put to better use if oriented towards improving the OpenGL situation?

[TechMage89]

ok.. this is nice and all, and everyone is entitled to spend their time as they see best; but besides as servers, why put in all the effort to port kms and gallium etc??? why? wouldn't all those dev hours be put to better use if oriented towards improving the OpenGL situation?

DragonFlyBSD is pretty much entirely about servers and clustering. Very interesting work, and potentially useful, but just about as far from graphics as you can get.

[Veerappan]

Well... if you get the new DRM code from 3.11 - 3.13 into the kernel, then you can get some power management improvements for the graphics cards, right?

People generally want as low of power usage in server rooms as they can get, so if you've got an IGP, you might save a few watts.

In my case, I run FreeNAS (FreeBSD based NAS) on my home storage server, and the Radeon 3200 (780g) in the motherboard chipset is still pushing out an ugly non-KMS console. I'm eagerly waiting for the day that I get a KMS console and DPM on that machine.

[Siuoq]

will you test it too in next file-system comparison?

[Serge]

will you test it too in next file-system comparison?

I too would be curious to see this.

[sireangelus]

Well... if you get the new DRM code from 3.11 - 3.13 into the kernel, then you can get some power management improvements for the graphics cards, right?

People generally want as low of power usage in server rooms as they can get, so if you've got an IGP, you might save a few watts.

In my case, I run FreeNAS (FreeBSD based NAS) on my home storage server, and the Radeon 3200 (780g) in the motherboard chipset is still pushing out an ugly non-KMS console. I'm eagerly waiting for the day that I get a KMS console and DPM on that machine.

...ok. But usually in real (as in, server room machines/server motherboards)there are some 2d asics that are pretty much implemented in kms, and in light of the recent article, who would put freebsd with a radeon 290?

Second: As i say, why making all these ports of gallium 3d/mesa? why can't we focus development on one platform, but we have to fork over fork over fork over fork/clone/port? i understand porting from-to windows/macosx... but freebsd? really? it's nice on the server side of things, but that's pretty munch it, and it's been consistently slower than linux. That's all i can think about.