Hi Gordon, Thanks for your reply.
--- On Mon, 10/15/12, Gordon Messmer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 don't really understand this, but maybe i sould explain my idea a bit further. My plan was to put /boot and grub (or whatever loader is feasable for USB) on flash to make it independant of the software raid setup. Can you explain how this would slow things down ? I don't really care for the boot speed, so if that's the only issue it's no problem for me. > 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. Thanks for the link, i'll read the complete paper later. But i guess the safest bet would be to buy different drivers with more-or-less the same capacity. > If you are concerned about temperature, you should probably > use 5400 RPM > drives. Good point. So i guess the choice will be 7200rpm with fans or 5400rpm without. > 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. The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP, Webmail and maybe some spam filtering. The number of emails would be somewhere in the 10s per day or so, so i guess that won't be a problem. My main question would be if it's responsive enough to be usable. Does anyone have any experience with virtualisation on an atom ? Best regards, Wesley _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
