Re: [Gumstix-users] Gumstix Cluster Revival

[Kirk M. <km...@ec...>]

Sorry missed this cluster thread from a few weeks ago...

and guess what we started today - to install a mini-ITX fanless in our 
DMZ to provide an nfs mounted disk for a full gum distro...
The microdrive idea is physically impossible at the moment - as the CF 
card area is needed for a network stick. A usb drive is possibly a thing 
I'll try on the verdex once I get usb cables sorted :-)
The usb disk idea has the benefit of portability, if its possible. 
Anyone attached a usb disk pack yet?
Cheers
Kirk
ps: we have a gum-duck i nthe lab with a compass and light sensing 
LED!... wierd but true

Chad Robinson wrote:
> Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote:
>> The cluster is about compiling performance, it's not storage intensive 
>> at all. Only one node will have the storage, the other are passives (in 
>> fact, the other provides a slice of the storage, but they don't access 
>> the data by themselves). The reason the storage is distributed is that a 
>> single gumstix can't hold more than a mmc/cf card, and by that time the 
>> cards were 512mb only. Today I see 1gb mmc and several gbs cf, but that 
>> was not the cluster design at the time it was conceived...
>>   
> Looking at what's possible today, I'd say storage is still not the 
> Gumstix's sweet spot. It would be interesting to use an inexpensive 
> Samba-based file server on a non-Gumstix to provide that functionality. 
> As you say, storage is not critical for this usage... Is using a NAS for 
> storage "cheating" then? =)
> 
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