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RE: Re: SVN on NAS?

From: Moretti, Giovanni <G.Moretti_at_massey.ac.nz>
Date: 2006-05-11 06:27:08 CEST

> The main disadvantage of the NSLU2 is that you need two physical
> boxes, the NSLU2 and a separate USB harddrive

I was all set to buy an NSLU2 until I read that they don't/can't spin
down the external USB drives. As I wanted to leave the system up 24/7,
this was a real disadvantage.

Looking around on the net, there were some suggestions of using
hard-drives that would remember their own time-out and spin themselves
down as a work-around ...

Apart from that, the NSLU2 + Debian seems a very tidy solution ...

Cheers
Giovanni
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Endecott [mailto:spam_from_subversion_users@chezphil.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:07 p.m.
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Cc: William Irving Zumwalt
Subject: Re: SVN on NAS?

"William Irving Zumwalt" <wizumwalt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a really simple way to attach a harddrive onto a
> network and use it as my SVN repository. ...
> just some sort of NAS device like thingy.

I have a Linksys NSLU2. This is a very small box with 100Mbit ethernet
and 2 USB2 ports, to which you can connect USB harddrives or flash
sticks. There is a very active Linux community for this box at
http://nslu2-linux.org/; the three options are "Unslung", which just
augments the Linksys firmware with additional packages, OpenSlug (aka
SlugOS I think) which is based on the OpenEmbedded distribution for
PDAs, and Debian. Mine runs Debian; it has a 4GB flash drive which it
NFS serves as /home. Although I don't use mine as an SVN server I'm
confident that it could do the job for most deployments.

The main disadvantage of the NSLU2 is that you need two physical boxes,
the NSLU2 and a separate USB harddrive. There are some other products
that put everything in one box, and some are sufficiently similar to the
NSLU2 to run the same firmware. Have a look at the very top of the
nslu2-linux web page for links.

Have fun,

--Phil.

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