Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:44:10 -0500 From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, clutton <clutton@zoho.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. Message-ID: <54812A0A.6080105@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20141205014616.da37661a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1417734458.1772.1.camel@zoho.com> <20141205014616.da37661a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi, I would be interested in this as well. If no one has done it lately, I'd like to work with some people and get this going as well. I'm sure PXEboot, NFSv4, with a KDE Desktop would be fairly useful with about 8GB of RAM and a Gb network. P. On 12/04/2014 19:46, Polytropon wrote: > 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). :-) > > > >
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