mfsBSD

Copyright (c) 2007-2013 Martin Matuska , 2014 John Ko

Version 2.1ko1 (johnko's fork)

This fork (github.com/johnko/mfsbsd) of mfsBSD has some extra features:

• inspired by Joyent's SmartOS: boot a whole Data Center from a USB or PXE boot
• how to recover with the USB image in RECOVER.md (auto-create DHCP, PXE, pkgng repo, distro jails)
• DHCP and PXE auto-configured based on make-your-own network map in keys/all/server/csv/dhcpd/net.csv
• host network interfaces also auto-configured based on make-your-own network map with lagg support
• refactored zfsinstall to use geom_label for identifying partitions
• refactored zfsinstall to use geom_mirror and geom_eli for swap
• refactored zfsinstall to use geom_eli for encryption
• refactored zfsinstall to use the bsdconfig-style zfs creation
• zfsinstall creates the ssh key of the installed server (so you know what the pubkey will be when you reconnect)
• refactored Makefile for custom "key" folders to separate different config setups
• refactored Makefile for more inodes in the mfsroot
• included sample build.sh script
• /etc/rc.d/jautopkg to install packages, with fall back to install /packages/*t?z that are not pre-installed
• smaller prunelist (larger mfsroot), keep compilers so we can rebuild ourself
• sample BIGNKPT kernel config
• lots of useful but EXPERIMENTAL script in ./keys/all/server/bin/ like buildallports (using poudriere) and stat-all
• lots of useful EXPERIMENTAL configs in ./keys/all/server/nginx/ (use at your own risk)

To-do

• jail deployment automation with Chef/Puppet/Ansible/etc.
• MySQL/Percona/MariaDB multi-master replication
• Riak, RiakCS

Description

This is a set of scripts that generates a bootable image, ISO file or boot files only, that create a working minimal installation of FreeBSD. This minimal installation gets completely loaded into memory.

The image may be written directly using dd(1) onto any bootable block device, e.g. a hard disk or a USB stick e.g. /dev/da0, or a bootable slice only, e.g. /dev/ada0s1

Build-time requirements

• FreeBSD 8 or higher installed, tested on i386 or amd64
• Base and kernel from a FreeBSD 8 or higher distribution (release or snapshots, e.g mounted CDROM disc1 or ISO file)

Runtime requirements

• a minimum of 512MB system memory

Other information

See BUILD and INSTALL files for building and installation instructions.

Project homepage: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk

This project is based on the ideas of the depenguinator project: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/