Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:44:47 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restore(8) to UFS on USB key: terrible slow Message-ID: <CAHu1Y71UHP02pFjE5JW42CNg_QvmcoAPbKOjo%2BOvjC4UcSZ1yg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111209062121.GA39981@tinyCurrent> References: <20111208063711.GA6482@tinyCurrent> <20111208155713.GC53453@dan.emsphone.com> <20111209062121.GA39981@tinyCurrent>
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Cheap USB drives, and even many CF drives, aren't much good as random read-write devices. On my Soekris boxen I run FreeBSD, and mount the root filesystem rw,noatime. And I don't write to it. ;-) /var is a memory filesystem, there /var/db/... contain symbolic links to /usr/local/db/.. because the package database can grow quite large. /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp. Configured this way, these machines are trouble-free.
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