I guess what'd be different is how to create a mega usb port so one could raid a whole bunch of mini-usbs (terabyte grouping of all those free usb giveaways!).<br>Or on the postage is more than you'll pay for the usb stick(s) <a href="http://www.miniflashdrive.com/">http://www.miniflashdrive.com/</a><br>
<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xcssa@xcssa.org">xcssa@xcssa.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
.....<br> In fact, if I really wanted to, I could even do<br>
software RAID on the USB sticks (I would just have to bind the sticks<br>
somehow to a specific device, so they don't get shuffled around).<br>
</blockquote><a href="http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html">http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html</a> has what you're looking for.<br>The following is an example document in german (but linux commands are clear enough) for id'ing usb raid sticks. <a href="http://www.rob-schulze.de/publikationen/frickelworx/usb-raid/">http://www.rob-schulze.de/publikationen/frickelworx/usb-raid/</a> .<br>
Enlish document example: <a href="http://cs.joensuu.fi/~mmeri/usbraid/">http://cs.joensuu.fi/~mmeri/usbraid/</a><br>I guess what'd be different is how to create a mega usb port so one
could raid a whole bunch of mini-usbs (terabyte grouping of all those
free usb giveaways!).<br>
Or somehtin where the postage is more than you'll pay for the usb stick(s)&& hub <a href="http://www.miniflashdrive.com/">http://www.miniflashdrive.com/</a><br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Anyways, point is, USB sticks are cheap, large, and plentiful. Since I<br>
find that they are a bit easier to back-up, I think I'm going to go<br>
that route. Slow boot-up times do not bother me, and neither will the<br>
lack of wear leveling (which CF cards do not support natively as far<br>
as I am aware), particularly since I am still going to minimize writes<br>
to the USB stick where possible. If I really wanted to, I could also<br>
use cramFS or something like that to put the working OS in RAM anyway.</blockquote><div> </div><div>USB raid would be faster than a floppy raid <br></div><a href="http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/totally-awesome-but-useless-floppy-raid/">http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/totally-awesome-but-useless-floppy-raid/</a><br>
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.......<br>
<br>
Tim S.<br>
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