Coupla questions on DragonFly as a desktop OS

[John Long]

On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 15:16 +0100, Michael Neumann wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:22:38PM +0000, John Long wrote:
> > Sorry, some additional info and questions:
> > 
> > Box is a Dell Poweredge T30 with 2x1T drives (for now)
> > 
> > Should I pick HAMMER or HAMMER2 (installer seems to suggest HAMMER)
> > and
> > should I use Dell's onboard RAID 0 or AHCI?
> > 
> > I'm doing a trial install now with HAMMER2, AHCI... I used NetBSD
> > (and
> > Free and still running OpenBSD on various boxes) for a while years
> > ago
> > so the basics are somewhat familiar. I'm sure HAMMER/2 is totally
> > new
> > and great :)
> 
> HAMMER2 is rock solid IMHO. Unless you want streaming backups, go for
> HAMMER2.

Thanks, ok I got lucky on that choice against the best advice of the
installer...

I want mirroring, not backups. I'm much more worried about losing a
drive than I am about somebody rm -rf / on one of my boxes ;)

/jl