On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Vick Khera <vi...@khera.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Zandr Milewski <za...@milewski.org> > wrote: > > > As someone who has spent easily 100 hours troubleshooting, rebuilding, > and > > restoring UFS based Netgate boxes that have to function in environments > > with less-that-datacenter grade power availability, I'll take "potential > > corruption in corner cases" over "1 in 4 chance it won't come back from a > > power cycle" > > > > *Any* journaled filesystem is an improvement. > > > > Journaling on UFS is just one setting away. Boot single user from USB, then > run "tunefs -j enable /dev/da0" for your boot device da0. Done. I don't > know why FreeBSD does not recommend this for the boot volume, but I think > as long as you never fill up the disk you're ok. I've no had issues with > it. > ______ >
That is an interesting idea. As I bought mine directly from the hardware store, I don't install pfSense myself. I've never booted it from USB. As this system doesn't have VGA, I may not be able to use a standard FreeBSD image out of the box. Are the FreeBSD 10.2 instructions ( https://www.netgate.com/docs/platforms/rcc-dff-2220/freebsd.html) still valid for 11.1? - Connect the console cable (I have that setup) - Boot from from a memstick image plugged into the USB port - From the Menu select 3, Escape to the loader prompt - Enter the following commands - set comconsole_port=0x2F8 - set comconsole_speed=38400 - set hint.uart.0.flags=0x0 - set hint.uart.1.flags=0x10 - set console=comconsole - boot - Select shell or LiveCD from the FreeBSD installer menu - Run tunefs Or does the 2.4 memstick installer give one an escape to shell option? Walter > _________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
