**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Feb 23 02:59:58 2009 Feb 23 04:06:15 i typically think of the nslu2 as a little arm machine, is there anything that would prevent me from setting up a raid1 on the desktop the data is coming from before moving it to the slug? just wondering if i miss something that would make it impossible to move the drives over to the slug once filled. Feb 23 04:22:26 unless of course the different endianess bites me, maybe Mr. G knows Feb 23 04:49:48 morfic: SlugOS 5 (currently in alpha testing) supports RAID in flash. Works just fine. Feb 23 04:50:35 i was going to follow the 4.8beta instructions, raid from flash does sound nice though Feb 23 04:53:04 i was more wondering if i can set it up on a x86 and use usb2 where they would be sdc and sdd likely and then move them over to the nslu2 (BE) where they would be sda and sdb Feb 23 04:54:01 but i estimated my size of important data and based on max speed minus a few percent, it would take me about 3-4 hours over the network, so i am going around having any kind of issues Feb 23 04:54:21 mwester: but you made SlugOS5 sound very appealing right there Feb 23 04:56:07 The idea is that you turnup to a mirrored device -- for reliability of course, but in the case where the rootfs is on a flash memory stick, having the memory stick mirrored would be desirable because it would let you handle high writes to the memory stick (i.e. swapping) -- it would still fail, but the device would keep running. Feb 23 04:57:17 One of the strengths of SlugOS is that you can repair/recover from the flash when your external disk goes wrong, and it seems to me that having basic mdadm and raid1 support in-flash is a useful thing. Feb 23 04:59:48 absolutely Feb 23 05:01:07 the nslu2 was a toy when i used it last time, compiled everything i needed on it, and used it solely off of a usb stick, mothed it when i did everything it did on the desktop, now it can handle it's original data storage purpose, which to me does not make sense sans raid Feb 23 05:02:17 would be nice to have raid ready to go straight from the image Feb 23 05:02:57 It's slow, though! Feb 23 05:05:21 since i am just setting up the disks, i kind of do not want to think about them dying already....although i need to think about it, not yet...no no no ;P Feb 23 05:05:44 how long do you think before there will be a SlugOS5 for the masses? Feb 23 05:06:48 We are waiting on folks to build and test the alpha version. I had hoped we could have released this past weekend, but not enough reports back from users in the field. Feb 23 05:08:50 i am just about getting ready to toss the desktop, once data is coming off this laptop, i can setup a VM for building stuff, sounds like it's ready for primetime, so shouldn't eat my freshly copied data ;P Feb 23 05:20:01 mwester: you wouldn't happen to know of any draft-n usb sticks that work on a nslu2? Feb 23 05:20:17 don't konw Feb 23 05:22:39 just wondering, a working draft-n stick could extend the life of the nslu2 considerably Feb 23 05:23:21 * mwester rather likes a wired network instead Feb 23 05:24:27 most likely those disks will find a new home in something like a DNS-323 or so, but for the next months, nslu2 it is Feb 23 05:25:13 router upgrade will be next to give laptop ability to max out the nslu2 first Feb 23 05:33:21 i shouldn't chat, read the website and google for audio stuff and work on the nslu2 at the same time, i just formatted a partition for no reason :( Feb 23 05:52:30 formatting md0 now, reminds me of formatting 40MB disks in windows.... Feb 23 07:08:50 nice, it still works even though /dev/sda1 is now /dev/sdb1 Feb 23 09:33:44 hey Feb 23 09:33:56 does anyone know of an active NSLU2 forum? Feb 23 19:29:17 ahh this is great, sshd didn't restart, and disks aren't finished syncing Feb 23 20:02:52 thanks for mapping the powerbutton to work as shotdown -h now **** ENDING LOGGING AT Tue Feb 24 02:59:57 2009