Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Yes, good idea! dharani On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:21 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > Ah, I'm not familiar with those. I ended up buying a fairly old board, but > one I knew would work (for everything) with the plan 9 kernels. I got a > Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525, and while

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Ah, I'm not familiar with those. I ended up buying a fairly old board, but one I knew would work (for everything) with the plan 9 kernels. I got a Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525, and while it isn't amazingly zippy (11 sec to build /sys/src/9/pc) it seems to be fast enough to be a file server. Jim On

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Assuming cost is not an issue, wouldn't intel Avoton based board be good for this? Regards dharani On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > hi, > > mine is the older model which is not passively cooled, a fan is needed > (not to hand so i have no part

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

hi, mine is the older model which is not passively cooled, a fan is needed (not to hand so i have no part numbers). it has a 40mm cpu fan but that is all. the fan died (got very noisy) and i replaced it but that was the only unreliable part of the server. -steve > On 22 Oct 2016, at 22:06,

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Stock heatsink with chassis cooling. I've had no issues since I've started using them back in 2012: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/stallion/venti/fs.jpg On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:21 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > For you folks with an Intel Atom D525 based

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

For you folks with an Intel Atom D525 based motherboard in your fileserver, do you run with a fanless? Use heatsink? Use a fan? Use liquid cooling? Use a quantum heat sink? Jim

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Thank you to everyone for their answer. It sounds like the safest route is for me to build a small computer to handle the role of fileserver. The last time I built a cluster I know I could PXE boot the terminals, but as I recall I set up the auth and fileservers using a CD. Is it possible and

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What happens when you loose the auth server? On Oct 12, 2016 3:41 PM, "Brantley Coile" wrote: > :) > > You would be a popular with your significant other as I was with my wife > when I had a PDP-11 in the living room. > > > On Oct 12, 2016, at 6:38 PM, James A. Robinson

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:) You would be a popular with your significant other as I was with my wife when I had a PDP-11 in the living room. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 6:38 PM, James A. Robinson wrote: > > Ha, looks familiar: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive >

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

mine is a dual atom mini itx box, with two mirrored disks - though i have an ssd to add when i get a chance. the server is a combined auth/cpu/venti/fossil/mail/domain/web server. it consumes 26watts which could be better but is not bad. a pi with a few sata3 interfaces would be interesting.

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Jim, There are other low cost alternatives than an rpi. Higher kilowatt-hour cost for sure than an rpi, but cheap... My current 32bit bell labs distro file server is a Lenovo (IBM) m58p small form factor. It has a 3.33 ghz intel core2 duo cpu, upgraded from it's stock 3.0ghz core2 duo. I have

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Hi James, My fileserver is an older Intel Atom D525. I have a pair of mirrored SSDs installed for fossil and my venti store is served by plan9ports running on a CentOS machine with ample storage. I also have a small SATADOM installed for my 9fat partition, which makes it easy to recover

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> I was wondering whether or not it'd be feasible to hook up something > like http://tinyurl.com/jgov5gc (Amazon.com) to something small like a > Raspberry Pi 3, or if the I/O would be too much for that kind of > computer to handle. Probably feasible but it is likely to be slow, because Plan 9's

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Sorry, for misspelling(iOS trying to "help" me) Rpi and Brantley I meant. среда, 12 октября 2016 г. пользователь Sergey Zhilkin написал: > Hi ! > > Rip is good for running terminal. It do not have modern (and old :) ) > interfaces to storage. I'm use old big tower PC, with several hard drives.

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Hi ! Rip is good for running terminal. It do not have modern (and old :) ) interfaces to storage. I'm use old big tower PC, with several hard drives. I think Eric or Brantkey can tell more, as he still run Kfs. (Cwfs) среда, 12 октября 2016 г. пользователь Tyga написал: > Hi Jim, > > I think

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Hi Jim, I think you should be fine. I'm using five rescued HP ePCs all with PIII @800MHz, 128MB RAM and a range of HDs, including one one with 80GB. All connected via a HP ProCurve 1G switch. I have one RPi2

[9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

Folks, One of the things I'm thinking about is setting up a full Plan 9 cluster, meaning one of the components would be a stand-alone fileserver hooked up to a decent amount of storage. I was wondering what experience people have had with slower or faster machines in this role? I was wondering