Hi. I've attempted to run FreeBSD 12.2 release off a USB 3 on the motherboard of my Dell R720 server and found the experience dauntingly sluggish. I'd like to calibrate my expectations here, I don't need flying OS but I would imagine it should't take forever to unzip a bunch of TGZ files. E.g. anything attempting to install anything (so I suspect writes) like
Now, broadly. I'm not married to the idea of running off the thumbdrive, it was simply an obvious idea. That said I don't want to put OS on one of those hot swappable drives either - it simply doesn't belong there in a server and in fact should probably be "nimble" and "ephemeral" in the sense that I should be able to replace it with another installation in a single step and have the server working. What do people employ for such cases. Lengthy detailed tutorials aren't necessary unless you feel like educating which I'll take with gratitude, but some pointers at my options and in general what "sysadmin professionals" use in their day to day would be highly valuable. I can google and Handbook my way after that.
This also doesn't need to be "physical". Atm my servers reside in a rack next to my desk, but I may need to colocate or have them elsewhere. I toyed with an idea of something like *mfsbsd* - having my entire OS in a ramdisk or smth like that. Or maybe there's some over the wire option although this would require 24/7 machine somewhere to distribute .. something (image?).
At the end of the day I can also plug a cheapo M.2 via PCIe and have OS fly. Why the heck didn't the USB drive do its god damn job. How is it so much slower than those rusty spinners?
Thank you
pkg install
takes awfully long. It took forever to unzip that Base.tgz
during the OS install I almost gave up. Somehow I don't feel this should be the norm. Was I just unlucky with this memory stick?Now, broadly. I'm not married to the idea of running off the thumbdrive, it was simply an obvious idea. That said I don't want to put OS on one of those hot swappable drives either - it simply doesn't belong there in a server and in fact should probably be "nimble" and "ephemeral" in the sense that I should be able to replace it with another installation in a single step and have the server working. What do people employ for such cases. Lengthy detailed tutorials aren't necessary unless you feel like educating which I'll take with gratitude, but some pointers at my options and in general what "sysadmin professionals" use in their day to day would be highly valuable. I can google and Handbook my way after that.
This also doesn't need to be "physical". Atm my servers reside in a rack next to my desk, but I may need to colocate or have them elsewhere. I toyed with an idea of something like *mfsbsd* - having my entire OS in a ramdisk or smth like that. Or maybe there's some over the wire option although this would require 24/7 machine somewhere to distribute .. something (image?).
At the end of the day I can also plug a cheapo M.2 via PCIe and have OS fly. Why the heck didn't the USB drive do its god damn job. How is it so much slower than those rusty spinners?
Thank you