I don’t really have much of interest to share at the moment- we’ve got at least 8” of fresh powder outside, so no work has commenced on the various car projects this weekend.

I’ve been following DragonFlyBSD from the sidelines for nearly a decade. It’s a fork of FreeBSD 4, when Matt Dillon decided he didn’t like where things were moving.

His HAMMER filesystem is intruging, and I’ve been looking for an excuse to play with it for awhile- but until recently I haven’t had access to hardware worthy of this hungry filesystem.

I was able to get a promo 2TB drive with a lower-end colo, and have been using it as my offsite non-cold-storage backup. So far, it’s been working great- I rebooted it once in the middle of a larger operation, and it recovered quite nicely. I don’t know if I’d use it for anything super-important, since there aren’t many tools for recovery should an actual disaster occur- but for my silly little toys, it’s more than sufficient.

I promised you pork. It’s in your clam chowder. Enjoy!