Thanks. I added zswap.enabled=1 to the boot parameters and it looks like it is working. Memory pressure on my system isn't all that high, but it does seem to have succeeded in avoiding writes to the physical swap. I realize that a lot of the memory usage on this box is for read caching various structures, like inodes. So, I'm not sure that zswap is going to be a big win, but it is goby eas - Debian
It would be great if you also enabled zswap support. It uses a dynamically allocated pool of RAM to divert pages that would be swapped to disk and instead compresses them and stores them in RAM. I'm honestly not sure exactly how it differs from zram, but my impression is that it is more flexible and transparent that putting swap on a zram device, since the system can push compressed pageby eas - Debian
A few thoughts. 1) I am pretty sure that all the dockstars USB ports are all accessed through a single USB2 channel, so there is really no advantage to hooking each drive to a separate port if you end up getting a multi-drive enclosure. 2) I don't think there is any reason you can't do RAID5 to USB drives, but that doesn't mean you should. I personally don't like RAID5by eas - Debian
I have a couple Mushkin Mullholland 8GB USB sticks I've been using for two years without fail. I haven't babied them. I haven't bothered with having syslog write to RAM. I have SWAP on the stick. I don't even think I've totally disabled atime. What I did do though, is only use 50% of the storage space.by eas - Debian
Thanks. Sorry I missed it. I'm really happy with my NSA320 and would love to pick up another one since Crashplan is getting pretty squeezed for RAM on my Pogoplug2 another 256MB would be useful.by eas - Debian
I think the major differences are 1.6GHz vs 1.2GHz CPU and a USB3 port. I seem to recall some indication that there may be other less visible differences, like the system management chip.by eas - Debian
I guess it depends on what you are using your system for. In my case, if I'm in a hurry, I'm not going to use a Kirkwood device with rootfs on a USB thumb drive, and whether or not I'm in a hurry, I'm never in a hurry to risk data loss/corruption...by eas - Debian
Is this the first time you've run debian off of USB Flash on a Pogoplug? Most USB flash drives aren't that speedy, though some are faster and some are slower than others. One of the places I most notice it is installing packages and updating the state of the package lists.by eas - Debian
bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @eas, > > Yes. I thought about putting a warning in the > first post, but forgot to do it. Sometimes, dpkg > -i command executes flash-kernel and does not deal > with the error successfully, so it messes up > initrd.img, but not always. Normally, people don't > install flash-kernel so nevby eas - Debian
Thanks for building this. After far too much work I got it running on my nsa320 tonight. My problem was that it was that the initramfs was trying to use a nonexistant /dev/root for the root filesystem, rather than honoring the kernel option I was passing in via uBoot. Removing the flash-kernel package, updating the initramfs and turning it into a new uInitrd image finally solved the problby eas - Debian
Just a note, At some point crashplan, which had been running solidly for months, started bombing out every couple of days. after digging around and tracking down error messages, I learned the openJDK JIT on ARM was known to be problematic in the era when Squeeze was finalized. I tried various options and finally turned to the Oracle Embedded JRE, which worked fine for me. I'll probably giveby eas - Debian
I haven't, though my impression was that the NSA325 was pretty much the same as the NSA320, but for the faster CPU and USB3 and that people had no trouble using the same kernel on both.by eas - Debian
Any reason to think that this will or won't work on a ZyXEL NSA320?by eas - Debian
It isn't as cheap as the pogoplugs, but the ZyXEL 320 is often on sale. Right now Buy.com has it for $82: http://www.buy.com/prod/zyxel-nsa320-high-performance-2-bay-network-attached-storage-and-media/q/loc/101/220639546.html Advantages over the Pogoplug route: 512MB RAM Dual SATA2 Two 3.5" drive bays. Downsides are that to my knowledge, there isn't a simple Debian instby eas - Debian
Bob Valiant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My dockstar is never asleep. Yup. My two Kirkwood devices are on 24/7 for not much more than the standby power draw of my old A64x2 desktop. My NSA320 (recently upgraded from a dockstar) is a file and application server, then I have a Dockstar that runs rsnapshot and crashplan. I use rsnapshot to make versioby eas - Debian
Not sure why it would be erroring out on you like that. The first non-comment, non hashbang line in my script installs a number of necessary debian packages, including 'build-essential', which installs gcc and other tools. That said, I'm not surprised that it isn't robust. I don't think I've ever tested it on a clean system, and I don't know that more than aby eas - Debian
Hmmm. I think you are probably using my crashplan script. I haven't updated it in a while. From the point of view of installing crashplan on Debian, Dockstar and PogoPlug are the same. Can you paste the output of the script commands here?by eas - Debian
Cool! I may give this is shot with my old dockstar once I get debian on my new NSA320 and get it set up.by eas - Rescue System
Can I just add a "me too." I'd appreciate any specific guidance on getting the rescue setup installed on an NSA320.by eas - Rescue System
I don't see a reason you can't just follow the generic debian instructions for building a new kernel package: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s06.html.enby eas - Debian
So, has anyone tried installing Debian on one of these? I'm tempted to buy one. The cloudstor pro has a 1.6GHz CPU and 256MB RAM and can be had with a 2TB hdd for $229. Not bad considering that 2TB external drives are $150 or more right now because of the flooding in Thailand.by eas - Debian
For those who are interested, Crashplan is a backup service that can provide free encrypted peer-to-peer backup on a LAN or over the Internet and paid backup to "the cloud." It is written in Java, but it depends on a somewhat obscure native library that isn't packaged for debian, and it isn't distributed with an ARM version. Fortunately, some people have tracked down the sby eas - Debian