Coupla questions on DragonFly as a desktop OS

[Jasse Jansson]

(this mail was meant for the maillist)

On 29/10/2018 18:46, John Long wrote:
> 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 ;)


I'm quite sure that hammer1/2 doesn't support mirror/raidN/stipes the 
way zfs does.
Hammer uses a master/slave concept.
I'm currently not using dfly so I can't give you any details, but I run 
freenas on my servers at home because zfs.