On 10/15/2012 04:25 AM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: > > This is the setup i have in mind: - net6501-70 running Linux - 2x > 2.5" <insert high capacity> SATA disks, using Linux software > raid/LVM - Internal USB flash to boot from - External USB DVD writer > for local backups
If you're putting in hard drives, don't boot from flash. Your system is going to operate more slowly, and there's no benefit. > I'm especially worried about the disks, do you have any suggestions > for brands/models ? Should i use different brands/models for the > individual disks ? Ideally i'd like to run this fanless, is that > possible ? http://research.google.com/pubs/pub32774.html I encourage everyone to read that paper in its entirety. Section 3.2 does suggest that drives from different manufacturers will fail at different times. If you are concerned about temperature, you should probably use 5400 RPM drives. > I found that the CPU actually supports virtualisation, but is that > really usable ? That's an interesting question. I hadn't previously noticed that Intel documents such support. Assuming that the hardware supports all of the required features, the answer will still depend on what distribution you plan to use, and how much work you are willing to put in. While Linux KMV supports 32 bit virtualization, Red Hat derived systems don't build software for it in their 32 bit distribution. I don't know about any other distribution specifically, but you'd have to build the KVM stack for yourself on any Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora installation. Without hardware support you can still probably do Xen PVM, but again, on a Red Hat derived system, you'd have to build the stack for yourself since they no longer support it in new releases. If you use RHEL 5, you'd be able to host PVMs. Support for RHEL 5 is planned until early 2017. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
