Category Archives: NetBSD

My view on the NetBSD operating system

NetBSD TV: The Streaming Video Client

Posted on 10 November, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

For quite some time I’ve been looking for a streaming video client that would allow me to watch the video files that are stored on my NetBSD server on the TV in the sitting room. I thought that my requirements … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware, NetBSD, Video Games | 1 Comment

WAPBL vs. Soft Dependences

Posted on 23 August, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

A few weeks ago I posted about NetBSD’s new journaling technology WAPBL. I received a lot of questions concerning the benchmark results that I published. People were especially interested in a comparison with FFS using soft dependences. I hadn’t used … Continue reading →

Posted in NetBSD | 7 Comments

Journaling at last

Posted on 31 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

A wish came true: NetBSD finally has a journaling file system. Simon Burge added support for WAPBL, Write Ahead Physical Block Logging file system journaling, to NetBSD-current’s main branch today. The main purpose of a journaling file system is to … Continue reading →

Posted in NetBSD | 6 Comments