On Monday 30 October 2006 10:04, Joseph Goncalves wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:22, Simon Males wrote: > > Hello Sluggers > > > > It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs > > Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom > > firmware. Much like the WRT54G. > > You can get Debian installed on the NSLU2 too > (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/) > > > I am contemplating in buying one, but would like to hear if any > > sluggers have any success stories and in there own experiments. > > I haven't found a real need for it yet. I have read about people who > have installed Music Player Daemon on it to make it a little music > player device. I have a crazy idea and would like to gage some expert opinion. How about making using number of NSLU2 devices as a distributed file system server using the Coda or AFS distributed file systems? I'm wondering how reliable and fast this would be compared to a centralised computer with a software based raid array or equivalent (with LVM2).
I would anticipate that Coda or AFS would take care of the replication and load balancing across the NSLU2 based nodes and would anticipate that over a 100M ethernet that say 4 or 5 devices would perform quite nicely and reliably, but am open to see what other people would say about this because I have no experience with AFS or Coda. What benchmarks should I use to test this out? Regards Joseph -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
