[mythtv-users] NAS with flash drive?

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:44:04 Johnny wrote:
> > Possible, but not really practical.
>
> I had a NSLU2 for a while and its main limitation is the 32 MB of RAM.
> You have to be careful not to use all that up just running basic
> services like ssh and nfs. As I recall I had to switch out OpenSSH
> (using 8 MB of RAM) for the slower and less capable DropBear (which
> used like 2 MB of RAM) or I would run out RAM just doing "apt-get
> upgrade".

I can run openSSH, but you're correct that dropbear is preferred by most slug 
users.

You want to set up a fairly large swap partition, this will prevent running 
out of memory, but certainly doesn't speed things up.

Some people have managed to increase the physical RAM (fattening), but it is 
not for the timid.

I've had a full Debian install (Sarge) running from a flash drive on a slug 
for over a year, the only problem is a lack of speed and overall capability.

The support from the NSLU2 community is terrific.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org