Re: [9fans] file server speed

[Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:15 PM,  <kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp> wrote:
>> That was in an office environment. At home I use
>> fossil+(plan9port)venti running on linux-based NAS.
>
> Do you use wireless LAN?
> If so you also need wireless bridge?
> The combination of NAS and venti sounds like charm,
> because the snmallest config is two machines.
>
> How about the power-eating of that machine?
> Recent low-power machine can do that task?

I've used ReadyNAS appliances at home for almost 10 years. The current
product line is made up of low-power Atoms. I'm running a RAID5 across
4 500G enterprise SATA drives (that should indicate how old this unit
is pretty well...) I have a wired network primarily in the rack in the
office at home - I absolutely would not use wireless to connect fossil
to venti (fossil does *not* cope well with the connection to venti
dropping).

I switched over to fossil on the ReadyNAS a little over a year ago and
have had really good luck; not a single crash. Performance has also
been very good.

It just so happens I wrote a README at the time since it was
non-obvious how to set it up correctly:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102312978/FOSSIL

Cheers,

Steve