From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 03:44:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BF0720F for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 03:44:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm46-vm5.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm46-vm5.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.108]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D34817E3 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 03:44:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1417751052; bh=FTr7OrswIr7XRO9v14kTRKOwmdgvbEdcl5/9ZAm5jPU=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=cTTOnsn5ey01uzA4ux4oNhc6DUIztjwa39iIppUTmvXVg0dUSWpAJT24bofAilDSpJKNr0r0dPvFncG3iaRWkVvW4QdFza6dqvPvuOj3dOwm/gi4hzZ+HRlGz0yp8S0wEzA8/W3iF1cgJZliUMkWYByJwxYCq4dsaOi/F/Mrww0ZGncYR1B97rUknL3+/mBGU6p8EU+5Lsi+htI8owESxeIQGbScCV7sVfsRGTWOc6B26+bUZMltVAJWodJaUjAFneci0D5iett6+B4zMpRa2HQDgrPxJDApGoaNTy/e0gcDeHkXZlix8WJxkTu5McmeBn/VfjXZxoik7gVqMuOJdg== DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s2048; d=yahoo.com; b=scxh4auV4CfoBsfyM1fkyziOFTZ652NL5FVS+2b5KjoQuOtygzKUuVriFeJfHSjaozvpk+esFoDa8JMohLSMGpCMBPWEw+UdjJE9/hVVrc20fNTUVj9Om+Xc5410Wyf/K9kCmiKS2IbzRcQ9Lf0rRev7wkzXqVlBcMTFsCT9APsWnprK1twos7HGscdm8hu7bu1lIT1bkozJWFzecazWIG0xyObqGLR5BAcsGOLabMKpsGocDCmYE5nO+MLrpY4HJSes2ewPg5t1/ut1eL7Qad3O+MIJXXjk4opKIup5/eaUrk7aSOyRE8+TZGkeeNVyobUjdxXAHhAwUXVLWUCUQw==; Received: from [66.196.81.173] by nm46.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2014 03:44:12 -0000 Received: from [98.139.211.205] by tm19.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2014 03:44:11 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp214.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Dec 2014 03:44:11 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 696629.12853.bm@smtp214.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: HqUnL.4VM1kN.G8C2hDs.R6DYEEKB0sVoEJ6MkrtDYHmgXN vHDlhgp.JdpfoCWGlH5QHJR5QdZmKYwHqvk2O2bhz0uF7tR5KdMhmCSX0aRG JaToG.MgGzvMWCFG9zMhKAJmAiqqXvux9trQ5W5fV8wWH.ooxnc_VXRS0eOu lVNTo6VI4KhSSdTs0RA7SoPw9xlAO1c5SJUD2yGTyC9qZfmoUrV8LudZ5fJm qmlMQOfl9meUUYPK4sAa_16hNDZZmd._y52UFE6ju.OsSP8qLGysjHqznh1C qndgC3384U.TLFjMEbn1smLTbHSKJczlVg7H9hD85q.fcJvW7xNWwkuZ2Yex cmObWHx4EWIvWHciO1OW5YcF2eHd5vmadR2UCbwV0RYmpRFLuH6lB0aIGg3C crn.Ykwp6V.7uoTI5PJmGBQl1TlEet6NabDNbn5uQtTRShm4yuuDUKp3z2yi dj6vWQmj2jc_qhfYPHSLys45NvxcB16hx_2hOrbHgSXMfm5XF0GtLyUxED4Q O3oMuXMD2ZIDT2mfdy.roinx0Jd9yu7CqZnm1M79n.tO.HOGvZKSNxCwZSmk z2uK8_B0jQVdXlRPfOcNAxgApYD4DY9tuMWSt3wDQbUMsdmwUBqq2luWwZLM rRq_WBm0G8oc- X-Yahoo-SMTP: h3Xqg6.swBC0yI913RMMwp94grO_cg-- Message-ID: <54812A0A.6080105@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:44:10 -0500 From: Paul Pathiakis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon , clutton Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. References: <1417734458.1772.1.camel@zoho.com> <20141205014616.da37661a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20141205014616.da37661a.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 03:44:20 -0000 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). :-) > > > >