Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:54:48 +0300 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: Brent Bloxam <brent@beanfield.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server Message-ID: <4CA4A4B8.6020509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA4A4A0.1000007@beanfield.com> References: <4CA4461F.6030508@gmail.com> <4CA4988E.2000200@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us> <4CA49F10.90603@gmail.com> <4CA4A4A0.1000007@beanfield.com>
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On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: > Kaya Saman wrote: >> From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk >> will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get >> written to all the time. >> > > You can skip swap altogether and use MFS (memory filesystem) like > Brian mentioned for other high write partitions that don't need to be > persistent (/tmp, /var/log). See the following article on the > freebsd.org website about using solid state storage: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/solid-state/article.html > > Keep in mind though that Brian's setup was for slave nameservers that > would be caching from another master. If your nameserver is acting as > master, you'll be storing your records on flash since you need > persistent storage, but I don't imagine those files will be write > intensive. > > Also, if you make /var/log MFS, you'll want to have an external syslog > server set up ;) Thanks a lot so it should be ok then! :-) Yeah sounds like a good setup, and also a syslog server :-)))) this is exactly what I need in order to check my IOS logs coming from my Cisco boxes. I had previously imagined it to be a simple tftpboot server but sounds like it's standalone. That's cool! I mean I really like having logwatch mailing me all necessary information anyway so that coupled with a syslog server should be pretty good :-) Nice ideas need to do some Google'ing now as I don't know what MFS is yet but I will.... :-D Cheers and best regards, Kaya
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