OpenBSD Hackathon work truly amazing
The latest OpenBSD Hackathon has produced some truly amazing results. Sure, every Calgary based Hackathon has produced something cool or amazing, but this one has resulted in 3 things that are home runs to me:
FFS2 – no, it is not done yet, but it is in a testable state and big disk/partition support has been lacking and this will bring OpenBSD back into the fold for my consideration as a fileserver. I’ve got one of those 750GB disks in my TV, you can imagine how much data I want to be able to store on the network, and I’d prefer it to be logically contiguous.
Bluetooth – I can just imagine a bluetooth access point with all the magic of PF, plus the simplicity of OpenBSD.
PF performance optimizations – the sheer amount of performance increase they’ve achieved in this Hackathon is nothing short of amazing. PF was pretty dang fast before, but now …. wow. Should be able to use lower power boxes for the same throughput in most of the situations I’m imagining.
Big thumbs up!
