From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1a3157d28f8065b3a7072365eb88e464@hamnavoe.com> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:29:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2baa7262-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > If you must use a rpi, you should strive to use it as a terminal, and > like every other Plan 9 terminal it should use the central file server > without local storage. That would be my advice too. As an experiment, I set up a 9picpu using the SD card as local storage, working mostly as a secondary smtp and imap server. After a bit less than a year, the SD card suffered a catastrophic failure. When I say catastrophic, I mean I can't find any meaningful data anywhere in the first 120MB or so of /dev/sdM0/data ... just not-quite-random looking garbage. I can't think of any software fault that could wipe out so much of a disk, with no respect for partition boundaries (the dos partition in the first 64MB had not been mounted). But I also know too little about the internals of SD cards to understand how they fail. Maybe some internal logical-to-physical block mapping table went bad? Anyway, it's just one anecdotal data point, but I wouldn't be happy running any plan 9 machine with an SD card as the main filesystem.