[hestefisk]

IIRC, Matt forked FreeBSD from v4 as he disagreed with the approach taken to SMP (ie multi processor support) in v5. He forked v4 and wrote his own patch set to deliver SMP support. That is a long time ago. I haven’t run Hammer / Hammer2 so cannot comment on why it is awesome. To me my file system needs to be properly battle tested and trusting my precious personal data to a one man band feels a bit too esoteric.

I have always wondered how Matt makes a living from this given the somewhat niche positioning of Dragonfly?

[zandl]

I think after Best Internet exited he likely did quite well, it’s possible he’s just doing DragonFly as a full time hobby. But I have no idea.