From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 08:15:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9C11065679 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B828FC12 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so2212542wwb.31 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:15:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=B0jon7eRAlCUrrs+E7op85jr3Xv+XV2lhiCcKFNQ8yY=; b=xgXQxaQKcWPC6YiAwp645hhkRl5VyrchikDEqNMaLRu5mpAYBjxTfQ6dtsByxYvaxf IHicjSmRaiZTtOqMjs2n8yxD2Anl5ASMKZpXZnZJca4HUG++RXgl1jIPn0/2/BTFzOR7 OuHG7SRRRNLC/QzpQblhwg8BNg3CnH3sNh7Dk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZGp31c37j72Kvt0RWe0+c3TEX5DHbxAaqRXSHC9G/RBD8FCZtfc6rEoT+/RhZvAAYu 3jF4JJ+jB/omdxB6OPr8l8kSC3zy4TIxQJ3BCK8d+oOV/YQT5KHg8OQikUnPCRn9phuK 48J7uLCl6a0QFy4uff+ZumCzPuQaBAWKHiGJk= Received: by 10.227.69.134 with SMTP id z6mr2490103wbi.201.1285834547235; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.52] ([85.105.64.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g9sm8100183wbh.1.2010.09.30.01.15.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CA4461F.6030508@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:11:11 +0300 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100914 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:15:49 -0000 Hi, I'm planning on using FreeBSD 8.0 x64 RELEASE edition for a small primary/secondary DNS server setup. The system will run Bind9 and have some zone files and views for the few people I host for. I am considering using a dual Atom system board with 2GB RAM and for storage was thinking of going for 16GB compact flash card instead of a normal hard disk...... This is a bit radical for me as I have never used this kind of setup before so I'm not sure how suited it will be??? These are the system boards: http://www.commell.com.tw/product/SBC/LV-67E.HTM# or http://www.globalamericaninc.com/p2808245/2808245_-_Mini-ITX_Motherboard_with_the_choice_of_Embedded_Intel_Atom_D510,_D410_or_Fanless_N450_Processor/product_info.html I mean for a DNS server (all be it a small one) is it wise to use compact flash as storage?? Thanks and regards, Kaya