From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 15:10:06 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 389941065674 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brent@beanfield.com) Received: from smtp03.beanfield.com (smtp02.beanfield.com [76.9.193.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8A88FC1C for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:10:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No X-beanfield-mta02-MailScanner-From: brent@beanfield.com X-beanfield-mta02-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.707, required 6, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_05 -0.50, RDNS_NONE 0.79) X-beanfield-mta02-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-beanfield-mta02-MailScanner-ID: 1P1KWe-0005uv-NC Received: from [66.207.193.249] (helo=Brent-Bloxams-Mac-mini.local) by mta02.beanfield.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1KWe-0005uv-NC; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:54:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA4A4A0.1000007@beanfield.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:54:24 -0400 From: Brent Bloxam Organization: Beanfield Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kaya Saman References: <4CA4461F.6030508@gmail.com> <4CA4988E.2000200@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us> <4CA49F10.90603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA49F10.90603@gmail.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 15:10:06 -0000 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 ;)