From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 14:59:34 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 DF5031065670 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:59:34 +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 6EED38FC19 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so2662798wwb.31 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:59:33 -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:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7GdY/rdr9jpmfylfrfGIca71+pCnH6YPWHUodxoywZs=; b=M46z3so05b8T0mk++2XbRZX0829aSmALQjnQroMEbMJdI02ei8Ra8MyBa0ve774uJW SHpT8NjCkyDr/40egAI3VfZrEnJu4Qu0JsUuOju3rDj9xWRRpo63/plEgq3CDPe4I0hX URvlOlKBljHHKgkO4luKI9VUL7w0wJvV0qFak= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Qek5WXBRAB4I93uYKEGo/aezRKcylibh1PBcYfAtx7LT1AW7jzAXf74nY/FreY80R9 AeENJ1hYXT/lxY1uo5L2CqRxnOW6LsX5WN4RyHiPJEuYlrAg4vQNbuW5qt8TPSJ4GkZm /dGJ9xuqKCMWKxbQEE3tDWLAvO1J+ETCxArg0= Received: by 10.227.134.194 with SMTP id k2mr3316934wbt.86.1285858773325; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.52] ([85.105.64.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h29sm1857101wbc.9.2010.09.30.07.59.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CA4A4B8.6020509@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:54:48 +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: Brent Bloxam References: <4CA4461F.6030508@gmail.com> <4CA4988E.2000200@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us> <4CA49F10.90603@gmail.com> <4CA4A4A0.1000007@beanfield.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA4A4A0.1000007@beanfield.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 14:59:35 -0000 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