FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation.

[Polytropon]

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). :-)




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