Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

[Tyga <cyberfonic@gmail.com>]

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Hi Jim,

I think you should be fine.  I'm using five rescued HP ePCs
<http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c00340466&sp4ts.oid=76322>
all
with PIII @800MHz, 128MB RAM and a range of HDs, including one one with
80GB.  All connected via a HP ProCurve 1G switch.  I have one RPi2
connected to the cluster and it, too, works fine with them.  Still having
struggles with auth, etc.

For what it's worth, I have an ePC booting off a compact flash card (via an
IDE adaptor) - that one is rather slow.  I haven't benchmarked this cluster
against anything, but my impression is that it's Ok, but a single
contemporary PC seems faster (SSD, SATA3, etc)

Well that's one dodgy data point for you!


On 12 October 2016 at 11:33, James A. Robinson <jim.robinson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Folks,
>
> One of the things I'm thinking about is setting up a full Plan 9
> cluster, meaning one of the components would be a stand-alone
> fileserver hooked up to a decent amount of storage.
>
> I was wondering what experience people have had with slower or faster
> machines in this role?
>
> I was wondering whether or not it'd be feasible to hook up something
> like http://tinyurl.com/jgov5gc (Amazon.com) to something small like a
> Raspberry Pi 3, or if the I/O would be too much for that kind of
> computer to handle.
>
> Does anyone here run a fileserver on a small computer like a
> raspberry pi 3, or perhaps something like an Intel nuc?
>
> I wouldn't be supporting multiple users, just myself moving between
> a couple of devices.
>
> Jim
>
>

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