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Mar 06 16:40:06 <fuzzy_> I am considering installing Open-WRT on my NSLU2 as it does not depend on having external storage for operation and installation of some packages.
Mar 06 16:40:47 <fuzzy_> There is documentation referring to 7.09 and 8.09... I suppose 8.09 is the way to go.
Mar 06 16:41:37 <fuzzy_> I am really just looking to get some feedback as I want to mainly use it as a file server.
Mar 06 16:42:29 <fuzzy_> Has anyone used it for hosting a file server for a mixed network mostly WinXP/7 while encrypting the storage device?
Mar 06 17:41:50 <fuzzy_> Hey gerhard7... Have not seen any activity or responses to my questions... Do you have any feedback?
Mar 06 21:00:17 <chrisb> just ran into an interesting problem.
Mar 06 21:00:31 <chrisb> 1. found nslu2 off, usb disks running
Mar 06 21:00:44 <chrisb> 2. power up of nslu2 failed
Mar 06 21:00:56 <chrisb> 3. powered down disks, rebooted
Mar 06 21:01:30 <chrisb> 4. logged into nslu2, powered up the external drives
Mar 06 21:02:00 <chrisb> 5. run e2fsck on a big external partition, it failed, icount exceeded
Mar 06 21:02:21 <chrisb> 6. was able to swapon a partition on that drive
Mar 06 21:02:33 <chrisb> 7. restarted fsck.ext3
Mar 06 21:02:42 <chrisb> 8. we'll see what happens
Mar 06 21:02:50 <chrisb> question
Mar 06 21:03:12 <chrisb> why wasn't the memory big enough to check the partition 160G on the external disk?
Mar 06 21:03:34 <chrisb> i need to be able to troubleshoot when the external disk crashes and needs to be repaired
Mar 06 21:05:00 <Reedy> It's only got 32mb of ram
Mar 06 21:05:04 <Reedy> or something ~
Mar 06 21:05:59 <mwester> Should be able to handle 160GB, if all is well on the disk.  There are known pathological cases in e2fsck where it consumes vast amounts of memory when trying to deal with certain types of corruption.  
Mar 06 21:07:03 <mwester> Generally, the reports are that 250GB is fine (if the disk is not corrupted) -- it seems to fail even on good partitions somewhere between 250GB and 320GB.  And 500GB partitions are pretty much right out, even with swap.
Mar 06 21:07:45 <mwester> Bottom line is that when the device was designed, 120GB drive was HUGE -- so 32MB of RAM was quite enough.
Mar 06 21:11:16 <chrisb> mwester: thanks.  i'm rerunning now.  i'll update the group with what i find
Mar 06 21:12:46 <chrisb> ok, it's clean
Mar 06 21:12:59 <chrisb> but i can't repeat with swapoff, because it's clean
Mar 06 21:14:53 <mwester> General rule is that you can try to *test* a filesystem on the NSLU2, but don't try to *repair* the filesystem on the NSLU2. :(
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