Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 01:46:16 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: clutton <clutton@zoho.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. Message-ID: <20141205014616.da37661a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1417734458.1772.1.camel@zoho.com> References: <1417734458.1772.1.camel@zoho.com>
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On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:07:38 +0200, clutton wrote: > Is anyone use a FreeBSD as a Desktop working from RAM, using MFSROOT? Many live systems work that way. For FreeBSD, check out FreeSBIE (sadly discontinued, but probably still available for download; NB: FreeBSD 5 and 6). Programs are loaded from CD (slow), but once they are "buffered" in RAM, things work fine. It would be interesting to see of this bottleneck could be removed by pre-loading as much into RAM as possible, and of course avoiding optical media as load media (instead, using a SSD or at least USB to boot). > As a memory is relatively cheep it can be even faster then ssd. Then check this out: http://www.sandisk.com.br/enterprise/ulltradimm-ssd/ Best of both worlds, and it could make the past come back (cf. AS/400 single-level storage). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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