From: William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 12:06 AM To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black with thunderbolt
> 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. I completely agree with William. NFS for development is the best way to go. No need to scp files onto your BBB. Instead, the BBB rootfs is a folder on your desktop so you can simply copy files to and from this folder. I have Gigabit ethernet so I don¹t see speed issues. Regards, John > > > > > 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? 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