FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation.

[clutton]

Know that. Frenzee, etc.

But I'm running the CURRENT and changing that is not an option.
The question is: Is anyone already working from RAM using BSD?

On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 01:46 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> 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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