From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 16: 8:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ambrisko.com (adsl-64-174-51-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.174.51.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1A237B402 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1S08co54485; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200202280008.g1S08co54485@ambrisko.com> Subject: Re: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for vinum webfarm? In-Reply-To: <3C7D69E0.3BF404EC@mindspring.com> To: Terry Lambert Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:08:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: "Clark C . Evans" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: | "Clark C . Evans" wrote: | > Hello. I was wondering if it is possible to make a read-only | > boot partition (core kernel, static configuration, and /usr) | > for a web-farm application. I've posted this question to the | > freebsd-small list as well and will try to solicit comments | > there as it seems that is the most appropriate list. Thus | > far these are some of the challenges outlined on the freebsd-users@uk | > list... | | It's possible to do; you probably want to limit it to | a "test drive" CDROM, rather than putting it into a | production setting. | | The issue is that the MTBF for IDE CDROM drives is very | low, comparatively, when they are forced to a continuous | duty cycle. This was discuseed two years ago, and I don't | think the situation has improved any. 8-(. Actually 2 years ago it got much better to be a non-issue. 4 years ago with IDE CD-ROMs it was sketchy. ... but what do I know being responsible for manufacturing systems based on FreeBSD mounting root via a CD-ROM in a dirty and hostile environment? Doug eh? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message