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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:23:53 +0000
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?
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> i've been contemplating making my auth server a 9picpu booting from local,
> but SD reliability is the drawback.

I believe the pi will run with an external flash or hard drive, abet slowly
and using a powered USB hub.

you could boot the kernel from the sd card but mount the external
device everywhere you need to write things, like /sys/log and /adm/keys

This would give you the speed of flash but the reliability of a magnetic
disk or flash drive.

You could even use multiple external flash drives with fs(3).

Just some random ideas.

-Steve