From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 08:40:27 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 9304E106566B for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212048FC13 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb29 with SMTP id 29so1238566wyb.13 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:40:26 -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=8E/t1X7rcDbY/+RvwBaWVP9qoDbpwrRh4zS1Wp0zctk=; b=xzRmi7at4TfbUPkF74LrJGiNBwyEDU9t9RRv3sC3UrE/D16JqG+fXjSlJWxKxVBeFo JmnnQAnY3emIYM0a99GXNRT/nsCc7KYuX8myDmu0reVuUX4NJisD2/WS5ZiOU9Nkcb0h wjJrq4A5Kfx/Ht4u3g7ppd+EILNqBtfPasHuA= 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=LjJXWky2fKBOgWXl1uCu2e9rtRtVID7kTMSZ8yTXs0tC4Vn8oMj0/a4aFsQTxsyh/u r15bDQpwTeTD6PsKFpO5H+VWlk1yqtu2VoykGO2L1c/vqp85+87wtiCPmdP/TouCEoWR MC9ZhNDBjj976OO0x+e7aiu7kTrDyNiGIlsR0= Received: by 10.227.20.69 with SMTP id e5mr4029981wbb.87.1285922426004; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.52] ([85.105.64.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e31sm787139wbe.23.2010.10.01.01.40.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CA59D65.3040402@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:35:49 +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: Paul Wootton References: <4CA4461F.6030508@gmail.com> <4CA4988E.2000200@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us> <4CA49F10.90603@gmail.com> <4CA4A4A0.1000007@beanfield.com> <4CA4A4B8.6020509@gmail.com> <4CA522DB.5050008@fletchermoorland.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4CA522DB.5050008@fletchermoorland.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nathan@vidican.com, 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: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:40:27 -0000 Many thanks for the responses! On 01/10/2010 02:52, Paul Wootton wrote: > On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: >> 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 > > I have been using a Soekris Net5501-70 box since June 2008 with a CF > card running FreeBSD 7. > > This is being used for DNS, DHCP, NNTP, network firewall and a small > asterisk server > > I have turned off writing messages to logs, and in June this year, I > started using an MD for /var/db/dhcpd (as that was getting written to > a fair amount) > Im still on my original CF card, and as of yet, have not seen any > problems (touch wood)... > > Its not the fastest box in the world, but it certainly does what I > want it to do. Just takes a long time compiling a world and kernel > > > Just another option for you... > > Paul I checked out the Soekris and looks more like a firewall style design with multiple LAN ports and kinda a bit more then what I need! Perhaps I'll just stick to my original SSD idea even though I'll pay a bit more but a 40GB Intel X.25 SSD should do the trick. - Am currently using this in another design for DNS where I'm using 2 BSD Jails for primary and secondary and is ultra fast :-) Just a bit more expensive but that's ok I guess.... Best Regards, Kaya