DragonFlyBSD’s HAMMER2 File-System Being Ported To NetBSD
NetBSD continues utilizing the FFS file-system by default whereas it is provided ZFS help that has been slowly bettering — in NetBSD-CURRENT is the power to make use of ZFS as the foundation file-system if first booting to FFS, for instance. There could also be one other fashionable file-system choice quickly with an effort underway to port DragonFlyBSD’s HAMMER2 over to NetBSD.
HAMMER2 has been built-up over the previous decade by Matthew Dillon and different DragonFlyBSD builders. HAMMER2 has been the default and dealing quite nicely with latest releases of DragonFlyBSD whereas now there’s a port underway to attempt to get the file-system working good for NetBSD.
HAMMER2 on DragonFlyBSD.
NetBSD developer Tomohiro Kusumi has began engaged on a HAMMER2 port to NetBSD, who had additionally labored on porting HAMMER2 to FreeBSD as one other train. This port is meant to be constructed towards latest NetBSD code, initially is barely read-only help however write help shall be tackled as soon as the learn help has stabilized.
Extra particulars on this nonetheless very early stage port of HAMMER2 to NetBSD will be discovered through this GitHub repository. Will probably be fascinating to see how the HAMMER2 port to NetBSD goes and if finally might turn into a viable file-system choice for NetBSD installations.