Featuring crash recovery on-mount (without fsck)! By: Marius Nestor, Linux Editor the release of DragonFly BSD 2.0, which features the HAMMER filesystem, numerous kernel, hardware and userland changes. It also features a lot of contributed software such as BIND 9.3.5-P1, bzip 1.0.5, less 418, libarchive 2.5.5, OpenSSH 5.0p1, and GCC 4.1.2. Among the new features brought by DragonFly BSD 2.0, we can notice: • better wireless drivers; • improved packet routing on systems with SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) CPUs; • improved polling support; • improved bluetooth support. The HAMMER filesystem features: • On-mount crash recovery support (without fsck); • Fine-grained snapshots and snapshot management support; • By default, it's historically accessible; • Queueless incremental mirroring, master to multi-slave; • Rollback and undo...
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