Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 03:02:17 +0200 From: clutton <clutton@zoho.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. Message-ID: <1417741337.926.3.camel@zoho.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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Know that. Frenzee, etc. But I'm running the CURRENT and changing that is not an option. The question is: Is anyone already working from RAM using BSD? On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 01:46 +0100, 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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