eagletree, For development, I do not think there could be a better setup than NFS.Unless you do a lot of native compiling, where USB might be better( faster writes ). For a "production system", NFS should also be no problem. I've yet to experience any problems with it once setup.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:11 PM, liyaoshi <liyao...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I can suggest , for storage system , you can try banana pi board . > http://www.bananapi.org/ > It will have sata and 2 cortex-A7 cores > > > 2014-07-22 8:05 GMT+08:00 eagletree <eagletr...@gmail.com>: > > Thanks very much for the reply. I kind of suspected that. The thunderbolt >> works well with the recent mini-macs and I already have it connected to one >> as a backup device, it would be simple enough to export on NFS and that >> would do the job. The way I'm planning the app, there would be multiple >> BBBs accessing the file system plus they would use standard db IO for sql. >> Given that each BBB would be handling a single web service request (start >> to finish of one state), I think NFS would be adequate. I had just hoped to >> take advantage of the raw performance of the Areca RAID we use. You've >> settled the architecture for me and it's easier to set up a prototype this >> way. Thank you. >> >> >> On Monday, July 21, 2014 10:44:27 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: >> >>> I'm not a Thunderbolt expert, but I think the bottleneck here ( assuming >>> the BBB had access to PCI-E ) would be the CPU. I have been following the >>> concept several years before implemented in consumer product, I still do >>> not know the actual specification, but I am fairly certain the BBB does not >>> have fast enough, or even enough I/O to do Thunderbolt. >>> >>> However, the BBB *can* load the kernel and root file system via USB, >>> NFS, and MMC media at minimum. I've done all 3 of the above, and they a >>> work very well. The on board Ethernet is exceptionally fast when compared >>> to some PC implementations. The USB hardware I tested was nearly twice as >>> fast at writes, but slightly slower at reads( comparedto NFS ). This may / >>> may not have had to do with my external USB media though. >>> >>> iSCSI also worked, but was not faster than NFS. Since NFS is >>> considerably easier to setup, I pretty much "gave up" on iSCSI. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:31 PM, eagletree <eagle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I am very new to the SBC world. I have an RP but would like to use a >>>> Beaglebone Black for an application on my network. The difficulty is that >>>> the data involved is on a Thunderbolt RAID array. I can re-export access to >>>> that file system on a protocol that these small computers could access, but >>>> I had hoped to be able to directly connect and avoid having a proxy >>>> computer to maintain. Is there any possibility that someone is working on a >>>> cape that could access thunderbolt for disk array connections? Is >>>> thunderbolt too proprietary and guarded to work up one's own solution? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
