[ML-General] hardware RAID

[WebDawg]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:11 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

>  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.>  :-)
>
>  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..
>
> David
>
>
I have thought about it.  At that point you need to consider the transport
mechanism between the systems and such. NFS, CIFS, iSCSI?

You need to back up.  Live. (ZFS Snapshot)

I do not know what you do with them, so I cannot help there.

PXE boot?  Other ways to boot?  I do not know a lot about that stuff except
the RPi.

I would consider bonding more then one port together on the network server
if you are doing anything major.

I run some VMS over NFS right now, I do not like it.

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.

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.

Fun Fun.
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