[Soekris] Using a 5501 as an NFS server

[Otfried Geffert]

I had nearly the same idea some month ago
- but never did it on my Open BSD 4.0
Good to hear that it seems to work reasonable
- in general.

I would have a serious look at the power consumption
of  a big (noisy?) disk.

Otfried

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Becker-Szendy" <ralph at lr.los-gatos.ca.us>
To: <soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:06 PM
Subject: [Soekris] Using a 5501 as an NFS server


> Has anyone done some serious testing of using a 5501 as an NFS server,
> obviously of moderate performance (the interfaces are obviously limited
> to 10 MByte/s), but of largish capacity?
> 
> I ran a tiny little test a few days ago, configuring the OpenBSD on my
> 5501 as a NFS server (no tuning whatsoever), using a 5.4K laptop disk
> and the OpenBSD FFS with soft updates, and with a Linux NFS 2/3 client,
> and it worked fine, with a read bandwidth (large files, large IOs) of
> 9 MByte/s (the file was probably in cache on the server already), and
> a write bandwidth of only 3 MByte/s.  The limit doesn't seem to be CPU
> utilization, so most likely performance tuning (including suitable use
> of asynchronous writes) could bring the write bandwidth to near the
> 10 MByte/s limit too.
> 
> I was thinking of putting a 750 GB or even 1 TB SATA disk on my 5501
> (replacing the current small laptop disk), and use it as a file server
> for data that has to be available 24x7, but doesn't require great band-
> width.  Since the Soekris already has to be powered up 24x7 (it is
> the router, firewall, AP, and server for all network-related services),
> adding slow NFS to it seems like a reasonable idea.
> 
> Anyone see any problem with that?  Is there a problem with attaching
> really large SATA disks to the 5501?
> 
> -- 
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