From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 04:05:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0063816A415 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 04:05:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from newroswell@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22FE43CA2 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 04:04:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from newroswell@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so3799598nfc for ; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:05:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VQsoyy6jNsg87XxtDuRKtAsDnbGK6+b4+UGXgDKMuSx3jO2UDWDSVELnypkgX65ihrnThafEYh9FKrki9Vfe+L4Ip9jR9CdggnfFIHq/QXMOlLqF1DV4YMIh8GkYn6S8o9vhrnRN+itjdSfG4xRQViKezcHVIkV69KLclY/2k30= Received: by 10.78.57.11 with SMTP id f11mr6332942hua.1165118713526; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:05:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.192.15 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:05:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <375baf50612022005i6b9a174w5d251e710d8cefc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:05:13 -0800 From: "Kevin Sanders" To: "Alexander Kabaev" In-Reply-To: <20061202210741.02e0728a@kan.dnsalias.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061202210741.02e0728a@kan.dnsalias.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Vishal Patil Subject: Re: Tools for FreeBSD development X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:05:17 -0000 On 12/2/06, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > I personally think that having a dedicated box in disk-less > configuration is the best option out there. The ability to quickly go > through series of hands/reboots without any associated fsck runs and > without the risk of terminally damaging any local FS is priceless. If > qemu can be tricked into disk-less booting, it should be just as good > though. > > -- > Alexander Kabaev Alexander, when you say disk-less configuration, are you referring to booting from a network image/server? That's an interesting idea. I'm fairly new to FreeBSD development also, and prefer the speed of a dedicated box, but recently suffered my first corrupted beyond repair system. Kevin