DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2008-01
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Re: HAMMER update - 12/31/2007
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> HAMMER is progressing well. The filesystem basically works, but there
> are some major pieces missing such as, oh, the recovery code, and I
> still have a ton of issues to work through... the poor fs blows up
> when it runs out of space, for example, due to the horrible spike
> implementation I have right now.
>
> It isn't stable yet but some major milestones have been achieved. I am
> able to cpdup, rm -rf, and perform historical queries on deleted data.
>
> Here is a quick example:
>
> # newfs_hammer -L TEST -S /var/vkernel/hammerimg.01 /var/vkernel/hammerimg.02
> ... start up vkernel ...
> # mount_hammer /dev/vkd2 /dev/vkd3 /mnt
> # cpdup / /mnt/copy
> # sync
> # hammer now
> 0x47799042
> # rm -rf /mnt/copy
> ...
> # cd /mnt/copy@@0x47799042
> [access originally cpdup'd data, even though you deleted it all]
>
> Please note that HAMMER is *NOT* yet ready for wider testing. Please
> don't start reporting bugs yet, because there are still tons of things
> for me to work through.
Just had to try it myself. This is way cool! Works as advertised - including
the occasional crashes :-)
Johannes
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