Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

[Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@xxxxxx>]

Samuel J. Greear schrieb:
> This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the
> list just as much as the regular posters.
>
> What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or
> participate in its development by following this list? Technical
> features, methodologies, something about the community? I suspect the
> HAMMER filesystem to be the popular choice, but what other features
> affect or do you see affecting your day to day life as an
> administrator, developer, or [insert use case here], now or in the
> future?
>   
Initially I stumbled over DragonFly because I was interested in 
investigating PostgreSQL Performance on different Filesystems. So at 
some point I read about HAMMER and DragonFly was brought back to my 
memory. I have been using FreeBSD since 4.x and iirc I was also around 
when DragonFly forked but I didn't follow it around that time.

When trying to setup DragonFly for PostgreSQL benchmarking I ran in to 
one or the other obstacle which made me go to #dragonflybsd... and that 
is where I got stuck :-)
People on #dragonflybsd where just nice and helpfull and very open to 
someone as new as me so I sticked around for a while and things lead to 
another. I started working on something I encoutered a problem with (I 
think it was some mount_hammer error mesage) and provided a patch which 
was quickly excepted. After some more work I was granted a commit bit 
after only 3 months or so. I always wanted to contribute to OpenSource 
(in one or the other way) but in a lot of project the hurdles are just 
too high for someone like me who is not a professional programmer. Not 
so in this project, that is why I am here basically :). All very "soft 
skill" reasons :-)... But I like all the features of DragonFly,too, 
especially the updated PF in upcoming 2.8, awesome ;-). But I have to 
say that for me those came as a second step, as I learned about them 
more and more when I was already a member of the community (still have 
to really figure out vkernels btw).


Jan