30 May
2012
30 May
'12
3:35 a.m.
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I suppose there are caveats: it would have to be
pleasant, like
OpenWRT, not like a Thecus NAS; and I'd have a strong preference for a
Funny you should say that. I ended up giving up on the godawful hacked up
scripts (that recursively run chmod/chown immediately on any external
drive plugged in, without asking the user) in my thecus n4200, and
installed debian on it.
I've been meaning to write a blog post on it, if nothing else other than
to say "don't buy thecus unless you're prepared to put a lot of work
in".
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Tim Connors
30 May
30 May
8:48 a.m.
New subject: limit concurrent connections with squid
Tim Connors wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Due to <stupidity elided> that wasn't an option. Nice to know it
would've worked if I had thought of arguing for it, though.
I suppose there are caveats: it would have to be
pleasant, like
OpenWRT, not like a Thecus NAS; and I'd have a strong preference for a
Funny you should say that. I ended up giving up on the godawful hacked up
scripts (that recursively run chmod/chown immediately on any external
drive plugged in, without asking the user) in my thecus n4200, and
installed debian on it. I've been meaning to write a blog post on it, if
nothing else other than
to say "don't buy thecus unless you're prepared to put a lot of work
in".
Ha, I just tell people "do not buy" and leave it at that :-)
For home I *have* been meaning to look at sourcing a SFF box that can
run Debian, take 2 or 3 3.5" SATA drives in an mdadm RAID1 or 5, and
then shove that out to the LAN as NFS/SFTP/HTTP...
So far my own stuff has operated on the principle of "real men don't
keep backups, they just upload a release and let the internet mirror
it" :-)
9:12 a.m.
New subject: limit concurrent connections with squid
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
It's the best specced *hardware* in that price bracket though. 1G (or was
it 2G?) of ram in the 4200! (and I replaced it with 4G; vs a maximum of
256M in the qnap). Strangely, their crappy hacked up 2.6.32 kernel is 32
bit, but the atom D525 instruction set is 64bit (and that's what debian I
have installed).
I've been
meaning to write a blog post on it, if nothing else other than
to say "don't buy thecus unless you're prepared to put a lot of work
in".
Ha, I just tell people "do not buy" and leave it at that :-) For home I *have* been meaning to look at sourcing a
SFF box that can
run Debian, take 2 or 3 3.5" SATA drives in an mdadm RAID1 or 5, and
then shove that out to the LAN as NFS/SFTP/HTTP...
On ozbargains, the HP microserver has been popping up a few times for
circa $200 to $250.
With the 4G in my thecus, I can (and do) afford to run zfsonlinux :)
The n4200pro came with a battery backup too so you could presumably get
away with turning off write barriers. But LiIon, so will only last
a few years. Meanwhile, I was thinking of buying a non volatile memory
pci card to stick in the spare slot for zil/l2arc, but they're kinda
pricey and small. I don't like SSD on principle, because I want it to
last more than 4 years before I run out of write.
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