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   Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 04:29:02 JST Stefano Marinelli

   I'll never stop emphasizing how underrated mfsBSD is and how convenient it can be.
   This morning, I had to set up a FreeBSD server on an OVH machine. The remote console wasn't cooperating when trying to attach an ISO, and it was performing poorly (I'll open a ticket about it when I find the time). Thanks to mfsBSD, I swiftly installed FreeBSD 13.2, but when I attempted to upgrade to 14.0 and update ZFS, it wouldn't boot anymore.
   In just five minutes, I prepared an mfsBSD image with FreeBSD 14.0 (not yet available on the official site) and got everything up and running.
   Such a handy tool that has saved me from unpleasant situations countless times.

   #mfsBSD #FreeBSD #ZFS #ServerSetup #SysAdmin

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 04:28:53 JST gnutelephony

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     • Kyle Taylor
     • Guillermo García Rojas C.

     @solobsd @kta @stefano there is a strong use case for this for micro sd booted devices (like pi systems) given the poor long term write reuse, and performance, of sd micro drives.

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     Guillermo García Rojas C. (solobsd@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 04:28:59 JST Guillermo García Rojas C.

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     • Kyle Taylor

     @kta @stefano I used that one to create SoloBSD. You can run a FreeBSD system that runs on RAM, no need to install.

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     Kyle Taylor (kta@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 04:29:01 JST Kyle Taylor

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     @stefano had to Google it. Wonder if this could be used for diskless setups or netboot-ing a cluster. https://github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 05:44:45 JST gnutelephony

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     • Kyle Taylor
     • Guillermo García Rojas C.

     @kta @solobsd @stefano the pi 3 was the last one I could still reliably depend on passively cooled. Because I only cared about headless applications that may have to run for many years much of what happened, even with the pi 3, let alone after, was kinda useless to me.

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     Kyle Taylor (kta@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 05:44:46 JST Kyle Taylor

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     • gnutelephony
     • Guillermo García Rojas C.

     @gnutelephony @solobsd @stefano may handle the heat generated a little better, too.

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     Kyle Taylor (kta@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 05:44:47 JST Kyle Taylor

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     • gnutelephony
     • Guillermo García Rojas C.

     @gnutelephony @solobsd @stefano -- yeah, absolutely. I was thinking of buying a stack of refurbished optiplex micro form factor machines and have them netboot off an image. And have them collaborate on CPU/RAM intensive work with Dask. Could do this with RPIs, but when buying in bulk, you might get more CPU/ram/$ with a bunch of micro form factor machines. https://www.freshports.org/devel/py-distributed/https://a.co/d/2AQfifg

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 05:57:37 JST gnutelephony

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     • Kyle Taylor
     • Guillermo García Rojas C.

     @kta @solobsd @stefano I wonder if solobsd would be a good match for use cases I liked Alpine Linux for (Alpine also has a pure boot to ramdisk rootfs operating mode). Can I build up a collection of custom ports packages and make them easily part of a solobsd system at boot?

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 06:00:09 JST gnutelephony

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     • Kyle Taylor
     • Guillermo García Rojas C.

     @solobsd @kta @stefano oh, that seems unfortunate. I think that kind of use would have been very interesting.

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     Guillermo García Rojas C. (solobsd@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 06:00:11 JST Guillermo García Rojas C.

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     • gnutelephony
     • Kyle Taylor

     @gnutelephony @kta @stefano Well SoloBSD is practically dead now. I stopped the development years ago. I stopped on FreeBSD 11.