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
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