On 6/3/2012 3:27 PM, Philip wrote: > 1. I get these complaints in dmesg > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> > LBA=7813119 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> > LBA=7813119 > but other than that it seems fine
That's normal for certain CF cards, especially certain Sandisk cards. Full explanation here: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/DMA_and_LBA_Errors#CF_NID_Not_Found_Error (Basically: it's annoying but harmless) > 2. Thinking about flash drive wearout, I set option "rw,noatime" in fstab as > my understanding is > that this is a good idea with solid state drives. Presumably I should > disable swap on the CF and > put a swap partition on the laptop drive? Should I mount /var on the laptop > drive as well? what > about other partitions? the jails will be on there. I would like to be able > to survive a hard > drive failure without the whole thing failing (there will be scripts to back > up the jails elsewhere). You definitely do not want swap on the CF. As for /var, that's debatable. You might consider running NanoBSD instead of straight FreeBSD as it's geared more toward CF, but I'm not sure if there are any pre-built NanoBSD images for FreeBSD floating around. For pfSense (based on FreeBSD) on CF, we use NanoBSD style build, and /tmp and /var are both run from a memory disk. > 3. Last question, but a long one :-) are there any problems with my kernel > config below. Maybe it > will be useful to someone else. I figured that it might be useful to be able > to attach a usb drive > or cdrom but I'm not interested in much else. Didn't look at it in depth, but you should probably be using the templated style rather than copying GENERIC these days (e.g. you just "include GENERIC" and then specify only the things to add/remove from your custom file. That is easier to maintain in the long run since you don't have to worry about updating it much every time FreeBSD changes what is included in GENERIC. Jim _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
