<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:30 PM, WebDawg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webdawg@gmail.com" target="_blank">webdawg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:11 PM, david <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I'm thinking about putting all the computers on the network disk
array, including the SOC's: beaglebone blacks, arduino mega256, and
the RPi2. I would not mind doing the compiles (and maybe even the
booting!) on the hard drives instead of the limited-life SD cards
and 'flash' that are on the SOC's. Any of you guys done that?
Everything in the house is 1Gb Ethernet. If only I could get that
to the outside world <heavy sigh.> <span><span> :-) </span></span><br>
Already have the BBB's booting of the SD card, which you have to do
with the rev B's and their 2 Gb size..<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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David</font></span><div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I have thought about it. At that point you need to consider the transport mechanism between the systems and such. NFS, CIFS, iSCSI?<br><br></div><div>You need to back up. Live. (ZFS Snapshot)<br><br></div><div>I do not know what you do with them, so I cannot help there.<br><br></div><div>PXE boot? Other ways to boot? I do not know a lot about that stuff except the RPi.<br><br></div><div>I would consider bonding more then one port together on the network server if you are doing anything major.<br><br></div><div>I run some VMS over NFS right now, I do not like it.<br><br></div><div>I was using CIFS but after learning that is really bad to do over and over again. I stopped. None of this was mission critical.<br><br></div><div>I want speed so I am leaning towards some physical disks for the virtual systems. In the future I would use a fiber target or bonded target that was dedicated if I wanted network stuff.<br><br></div><div>Fun Fun.<br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I forgot to mention. You are going to need a few UPS units. I have destroyed virtual systems when a server that hosts its filesystem has went down. It is not fun bringing it back to life.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you are talking about creating and image, and having the devices pull any new images when new ones exist, still using them on the SD cards while they are on, I think you have a different situation all together.<br></div></div>