Hi James, My fileserver is an older Intel Atom D525. I have a pair of mirrored SSDs installed for fossil and my venti store is served by plan9ports running on a CentOS machine with ample storage. I also have a small SATADOM installed for my 9fat partition, which makes it easy to recover if^H^Hwhen the write cache dies.
This setup works well - I've been running it with zero problems for a few years now. If you're curious, I kept some notes on how to do this here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/stallion/venti/ (start with the README). That said, an rpi might be I/O bound if you have more than a couple of CPU severs and terminals on your network. A NUC would certainly have more than enough power (I keep a NUC in my office for working with Altium). Cheers, Steve On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:33 PM, James A. Robinson <jim.robin...@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 >
