(sorry for not replying to the real message but I joined the list some minutes ago)
On Friday,2009-11-06, at 18:40 , Tony Lee wrote: > I have access to some plugcomputers (1.2GHz ARM cpu that plug into > any outlet) http://plugcomputer.org/. > > I like to build to Tahoe on them. This is a great relieve to know I am not the only one thinking about that. > The system I have is running the full ubuntu for ARM already. > Not the Karmic release yet, but soon. I sure hope we get a Karmic release, but stock Ubuntu seems to not run on the sheevaplug: [1] Maybe Debian is an option. Let me tell you about what I am envisioning - maybe it inspires someone or initiates some discussion: My own home uplink and that of some (5-10) friends of mine is a standard ADSL connection with 6/0.5 Mbps bandwidth (that bad one being upload of course). We all dislike power bills and backup problems and most use Windows as a client OS and have no idea of anything else. So what I did was buy a SheevaPlug[2] because it is cheap (<US$ 100) and low-power. I put a 1TB-USB-harddrive with auto-powerdown to it and experience <<10W power usage of the whole thing on average. Great. Now for the dream part: Put the same setup to any of the friends' house, install a storage node onto each, forward a TCP port to this device (to tunnel NAT). On some high-bandwidth server (I have one, but say a virtual root server) install a helper node to manage the erasure-coding and distribution where crippled upload bandwidth leads to problems As for the clients: At least in theory, the win32 client should be able to work against another grid. For now I am not sure if this needs recompiling the client (bad) or only reconfiguration of the available client (good). I hope it is not a sacrilege to propose that but I am not keen to dump my 0.8TB raw photo data at allmydata.com for $99/year - and they probably aren't either. I appreciate any comment! Regards, Paul [1] http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=885.0 [2] http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
