On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >> I would recommend that you use a class 6 or class 10 full size SD card for >> this purpose. >> One of the Sandisk Extreme III cards, for example. The extra cost is >> worth it for the server. >> There is a huge difference in card performance, especially for small file >> writes, and >> the new larger sized (8+GB) microSD cards tend to be especially bad. >> > > It's an 8 GB Patriot SDHC class 6, which has always been really snappy. I > actually used an initial iteration of the XSXO for a couple of weeks last > month for an extended "maintenance window" while I diddled around backing > up, cleaning out the dust bunnies, and reinstalling my regular XS. My users > couldn't tell the difference as far as Jabber went. I did have to make sure > to not keep a local login up, as I had the XSXO on the floor in the pantry > next to the DSL modem and the cats would walk on the XO's keyboard. "Darn > it, cat, you're not root!" > > >> >> Great write-up, by the way. >> >> Thanks! >> wad >> > > Thanks! I've been meaning to get this set up in anticipation of winter > storms and hoped others would find it useful. Not only as a power friendly > backup, but it lowers the barriers to entry for running your own Jabber and > Apache if you can't dedicate a "real" computer but do have an XO-1 and a > spare SD card. > > Anna Schoolfield > Birmingham > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > >
Hi Anna, Great write-up. Just wondering if you had a chance to run the /var off a external USB drive on the XS-on-XO (like we had at the OLPC SF summit). By the way, Ben Tran has defended his thesis project successfully (http://file.status.net/i/identica/sameerverma-20101215T220215-6bczm4g.jpeg), so we should start seeing his documents, tests and results on the wiki sometime soon. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel