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 <[email protected]> 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? Is > thunderbolt too proprietary and guarded to work up one's own solution? > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
