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After reading multiple threads about this issue, I can't understand why a major institution/company would want to go with proprietary options for something as sensitive as firewalls and networking devices.

Just to add to the discussion, I also commented in another thread about using ZFS and installing to a mirror of disks and then simply detaching the mirrors into separate bootable pools to use in the different machines. This would actually be faster as well as simpler (I've already tried it with...

I guess the PCI bus would be the main bottle neck there.

Hi! Only the source disk would be an SSD. I definitely will be reporting back.

Extremely happy to have all these responses! Thanks! Concerning the above. These would be very basic installs, i.e. a base system, a GUI and some productivity tools. No SSH keys. I would be using the SSD essentially as the source disk so that I can leverage the read speed. Concerning the number...

Indeed. This is what I did (from the notes that I made): Enabling autofs The first step in enabling autofs is to add autofs_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf so that it and its corresponding daemons are loaded at boot. Once autofs_enable="YES" is added you have to create a master "map" for each of...

Hi, I have prepared an SSD (500Gb) of a FreeBSD 10.2 install and am looking to clone this installation to multiple same sized HDD's (10 at a time). I am investigating the use of dd to do this expediently. I came across a Linux oriented thread and wondered if the same approach would work on...

Ah. Thanks for that clarification.

Is there anyone who might be able to shed a bit of light as to why GELI seems to just be a FreeBSD disk encryption tool rather than a *BSD disk encryption tool? I discovered some time ago that a Truecrypt compatible layer for full disk encryption was written from the ground up to be...

As far as I am aware from ARK http://ark.intel.com/products/50092/Intel-Desktop-Board-DH67CF#@specifications it is. There have been some reports that upgrading the BIOS may brick some boards. Intel I don't think ever fixed the problem, since then these boards have been EOL'ed and Intel seems to...

All of the suggestions are nicely sophisticated. But in this particular use case, the physical machines, with none of them being connected to the Internet and are widely distributed. Thus any thing that requires a network isn't going to work. The easiest really does seem to be cloning disks en...

Hi, so I am using an Intel desktopboard BOXDH67CFB3 as a testbox for installations of various kinds. This is the same board that was used in the first version of the FreeNAS Mini from iXsystems. It has a core i3-2120T with the BIOS version KCH7710H.86A.0110.2013.0513.1018. I am running FreeBSD...

I guess many of you may have already seen this. It will be interesting to see how they deal with this. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/unauthorized-code-in-juniper-firewalls-decrypts-encrypted-vpn-traffic/

Noted. I am testing this out in a few machines now it seems to work rather well. All the hardware would be exactly the same. To answer your question, no the workstations would not have more disks for redundancy, single disks would be fine in this particular application. I haven't used puppet...

Hmm. I realize this thread is old, but this seems like it might have a number of additional use cases. Does anyone have any experience or advice in using this as a method for installing onto multiple systems? For example, lets say I set up a 10 way mirror, then zfs split off 9 disks in order...

Ok. I am going to go ahead and mark this as solved. I found a really simple explanation here: https://nixbsd.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/freebsd-nfs-automount-with-autofs/ It worked beautifully! What a wonderful utility.

Ok, please bear with me, I want to get this right and fully understand what is happening. I think I have understood. autofs_enable=YES I have placed in rc.conf I want one directory from another machine which is mounted in fstab as 172.1.1.1:/share /mnt nfs ro,noauto on a local machine. So I...

Hi, I just had a look at the new automounter autofs that is now in FreeBSD 10.2 and am trying to find out the best way to set it up to mount NFS shares locally upon access. At present I have in /etc/fstab something along the lines of 172.1.1.1:/share /mnt nfs ro,noauto with the noauto option...

I'd swim the length of the Nile if you gave us FreeBSD with a version of the HAMMER filesystem!

Wow, this has spiralled into something quite interesting. I tend to follow the the FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD projects. Mainly because I use NFS rather extensively and both offer high bandwidth performance and filesystems which make working with large storage systems and backups easier. I'll...