FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation.

[clutton]

I'm going to try. Will post the results here.

First I'll try on one of my relatively fast machines. The world is
already compiling. :)

Then if everything is ok on my notebook with 8G RAM.

On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 22:44 -0500, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would be interested in this as well.  If no one has done it lately, 
> I'd like to work with some people and get this going as well.
> 
> I'm sure PXEboot, NFSv4, with a KDE Desktop would be fairly useful with 
> about 8GB of RAM and a Gb network.
> 
> P.
> 
> On 12/04/2014 19:46, 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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