Will on 26 May 2013 14:55:07 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi NAS questions, cont'd

Adam, 

I can try ntfs on my pi again. As far as OS selection, if you're competent with linux I would slap on Arch on the Pi and look at this if you're not familiar with arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta 

Overall, OS shouldn't matter but you will see a huge difference in boot times and the installation is much smaller. I also like to point out that 60% of the core developers live around Philly for Arch Linux ARM. 

-Will C


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:

Which NTFS driver are you using? I think it's gotten better, but I recall reading (don't know where) that the NTFS write ability was poor.

 

Raspian should be OK, I would think, especially if you run it in text mode.

 

 

 

On Sunday 2013-05-26 5:44:39 PM Adam Zion wrote:

 OK, good responses. But a few things...

* I don't intend this to be a "real" NAS, per se. Its main job will be to serve as backup storage. I don't intend, for instance, to have streaming videos coming from it. What I *would* like, however, is for it to be able to copy files from one USB-connected disk to the other w/o dying. I just ran a test, and the Pi was apparently unable to run rsync when throttled to 24 Kbps; that's hardly a screaming rate. Any ideas on what ight be a "safer" way to copy between the disks other than rsync?

* Is Raspbian perhaps not the right OS for this? Would Arch be a lighter-weight solution?

* I understand that NTFS puts a higher load on the CPU than other file systems. Would ext2 be better than ext3 for this?

Thx,
-Z



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