I've wanted to try hacking a Pogoplug ~($12 on eBay with free shipping right now, as I just saw on Dealigg this week) to become an OSD (inserting one 3TB disk). I believe all of these have a SATA port, though the amount of RAM varies. These lesser ARM processors are pretty slow for this kind of work too. After much thought, I decided it would probably be better to make the Pogoplug an iSCSI target.
I guess the topology would be to run ~10 such Pogoplugs on a layer-2 gigabit switch with a 10GbE uplink. Then, a copper crossover cable would be used to connect to a 10GbE port on a desktop. The desktop would use iSCSI to mount the Pogoplugs. These block devices would back 10 OSDs with a some quantity of trim'able USB3.0 thumbdrives for OS and journals. Multiple a few times... profit? I got that far with the though experiment about a year ago, but gave I up because it dawned on me how impractical and inefficient this would all be. Anyway.. Back to work. :-) Jumbo frames on a Pogoplug? Cool! On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu>wrote: > On 03/25/2014 10:49 AM, Loic Dachary wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's not available yet but ... are we far away ? > > It's a pity Pi doesn't do SATA. Otherwise all you'd need's a working arm > port and some scripting... > > > -- > Dimitri Maziuk > Programmer/sysadmin > BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > >
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