Tag Archives: Ramdrive

RaspberryPI running FreeBSD/arm

April 22, 2013 22:10 / Leave a Comment /

RaspberryPI is a cheap yet highly capable pico-computer that I recently purchased along with a 16Gb SD-card for storage. As my operating system of choice is FreeBSD, naturally I’d like to install the PI using just that. FreeBSD/arm is available in FreeBSD 10 which is still at beta-phase. For the time being the easiest way is … Read More →

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Diskless /var

January 28, 2013 21:53 / Leave a Comment /

On root filesystems that’s served from flash memory it may be advisable to keep off heavy writes from them. By putting /var on a ramdrive you can greatly increase the expected lifetime of an ssd or a usb memorystick. Initial steps A snapshot of /var needs to be created. On true diskless systems FreeBSD ramdrive … Read More →

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