Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 06:24:48 +0200 From: clutton <clutton@zoho.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. Message-ID: <1417753488.2773.1.camel@zoho.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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I'm going to try. Will post the results here. First I'll try on one of my relatively fast machines. The world is already compiling. :) Then if everything is ok on my notebook with 8G RAM. On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 22:44 -0500, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: > 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). :-) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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