Hi ! Rip is good for running terminal. It do not have modern (and old :) ) interfaces to storage. I'm use old big tower PC, with several hard drives. I think Eric or Brantkey can tell more, as he still run Kfs. (Cwfs) среда, 12 октября 2016 г. пользователь Tyga написал: > Hi Jim, > > I think you should be fine. I'm using five rescued HP ePCs > 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 > 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 >> >> > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile