Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:13:59 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> Cc: clutton <clutton@zoho.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412042108060.45067@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <54812A0A.6080105@yahoo.com> References: <1417734458.1772.1.camel@zoho.com> <20141205014616.da37661a.freebsd@edvax.de> <54812A0A.6080105@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: > 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). :-) > 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. Seems like it would not be too difficult to do with a separate root filesystem. Boot that from disk or network and it creates a tmpfs and loads it with a /usr image. Or mdmfs could be used, but tmpfs has less overhead.
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