Re: [9front] FQA update

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On April 2, 2023 7:29:07 AM EDT, Philip Silva <philip.silva@protonmail.com> wrote:
>Using a USB SSD helps though (there are also SSD USB sticks, and hubs can be used for external power...) and using the original Power Supply. At least for the USB part the FQA can be used to look that up.
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i experimented with an rpi4 file server backed by usb ssd. i stopped using it because parallel reads and writes routinely froze the system for interminable periods.

here's a tangentially related stupid story:

the thinkpad x1 yoga 3rd gen won't boot from a drive in its wwan slot, and 9front can't quite access the nvme i put in that slot, and i didn't want to erase the main hard drive, so i spent a week booting from an installation (not just the iso) on a usb stick. this sucked for similar reasons as above, so i installed to a micro sdcard in the internal micro sdcard slot (and continued booting the kernel from the usb stick because the machine can't boot from the micro sdcard slot either). this sucked less, but still sucks because write speeds are slow.

it's valuable that all these things kind of work, but they only kind of work. depending on what you're doing with the computer usb may be fine. but it sucks.

sl