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Hey all,
Have been playing with Arch the last few days and I really like it.. I'm currently building
a nas server based on a AMD mini-itx board, 2G ram with an IDE CF disk. My intention is
to boot the nas from a CF disk, but want to throw the OS into RAM on boot to reduce
the number of writes to the CF disk.
Not too worried about saving sessions etc.. more or less concerned about getting the
nas server OS to a known state on each boot.
I am aware of FreeNAS, Openfiler etc... while these serve a specific purpose very well, it limits
my preference to have the capability of adding things down the road to the OS.
FaunOS looks interesting, but there's waaaaayyy to much stuff in there.
I've read many many posts on the forum and there's a few mentions of what I'm looking
for but can't seem to find a successful implementation.
So... it this possible with Arch? How?
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Ok.. So I got arch booting into a ram from the CF card easy enough... There is one
strange thing though..
When I copy data from a software raid5 array which gets configured on bootup, I see
the HDD disk activity LED flash for the CF disk. Vmstat doesn't report any
reads/writes though. There's no swap configured.
When a copy a file directly from the ramdisk (ie. /tmp) the CF card LED does not
flash with activity.
All file copies are done via network samba shares.
So.. for some reason copying data from the raid set causes some kind of disk
activity on the CF card either due to the raid driver or samba?
Just wondering if anyone has experienced this kind of behaviour before?
Thanks in advance,
Last edited by hdefjunkie (2008-03-31 02:18:25)
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Not to turn anyone off of Arch, but have either of you checked out FreeNAS? It fulfills all the requirements mentioned above and has a nice "dd-wrt style" web interface. Just a thought, and more power to anyone making Arch provide the same functionality.
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