Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/15/2012 04:25 AM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: This is the setup i have in mind: - net6501-70 running Linux - 2x 2.5 insert high capacity SATA disks, using Linux software raid/LVM - Internal USB flash to boot from - External USB DVD writer for local backups If you're putting in hard drives,

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread Lars Noodén
On 10/15/12 9:44 PM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: ... The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP, Webmail and maybe some spam filtering. The number of emails would be somewhere in

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread William Ahern
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP, Webmail and maybe some spam filtering. The number of emails

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread Greg Troxel
William Ahern will...@25thandclement.com writes: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP, Webmail and

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/15/2012 11:44 AM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: --- On Mon, 10/15/12, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: If you're putting in hard drives, don't boot from flash. Your system is going to operate more slowly, and there's no benefit. I don't really understand this, but maybe i sould explain

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:43 +0300, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/15/12 9:44 PM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: ... The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP,

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread Warner Losh
On Oct 15, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Philippe Vanhaesendonck wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:43 +0300, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/15/12 9:44 PM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: ... The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there