Questions and suggestions about some of the goals

Mads Worsøe Duun mads at worsoe.dk
Fri Nov 25 04:09:05 PST 2011


I have been
following DragonFlyBSD for several years now, and think the project have some
very interesting ideas. But I have some questions and suggestions about some
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All around you
read that dbsd has a "hybrid" kernel, which means that e.g. devices
can operate as user processes instead of a kernel process. Personally I think
that neither a microkernel or a monolithic kernel is the best solution, but something
in between. Therefore, how much can of dbsd can already be running as
a user processes, and witch part is already running as a user
processes in dbsd?

Minix has a reincarnation
server, that constantly checks if a process has crashed, and if it has, it
restart the process. Does dbsd have something like that?

 

Concerning Hammer,
is it today possible to make some kind of “boot environment”, as you can with
ZFS on Solaris/FreeBSD?

 

About packages
installation, the new pbi format from PC-BSD, sounds like it could do much of
the stuff from the packages installation section on the Goal page. I have asked
on the PC-BSD forum, how much work it would take to port the pbi format to use
pkgsrc instead of FreeBSDs ports, and it seems that it would be relative
simple. What do you think?
Cheers,
Mads Worsøe Duun




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