Hi Since you are suggesting 2 x 8GB USB for a root partition, what is your experience with read/write speed and lifetime expectation of modern USB sticks under FreeBSD and why 2 of them, GEOM mirror?
- Dan Naumov > Hi Dan, > > everybody has different needs, but what exactly are you doing with 128GB > of / ? What I did is the following: > > 2GB CF card + CF to ATA adapter (today, I would use 2x8GB USB sticks, > CF2ATA adapters suck, but then again, which Mobo has internal USB ports?) > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0a 507630 139740 327280 30% / > /dev/ad0d 1453102 1292296 44558 97% /usr > /dev/md0 253678 16 233368 0% /tmp > > /usr is quite crowded, but I just need to clean up some ports again. > /var, /usr/src, /home, /usr/obj, /usr/ports are all on the GELI+ZFS > pool. If /usr turns out to be to small, I can also move /usr/local > there. That way booting and single user involves trusty old UFS only. > > I also do regular dumps from the UFS filesystems to the ZFS tank, but > there's really no sacred data under / or /usr that I would miss if the > system crashed (all configuration changes are tracked using mercurial). > > Anyway, my point is to use the full disks for GELI+ZFS whenever > possible. This makes it more easy to replace faulty disks or grow ZFS > pools. The FreeBSD base system, I would put somewhere else. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"