[Clug-tech] Machine recommendation: loghost + peripheral manager

[John Jardine]

Hi Simon,

Re wearing out flash media: I can get around 99% of that by putting the
system logs on a ram disk and flushing them to a NAS every 24hrs.  With
the current price of flash media I don't really care if I kill it though
- I'll just pop a spare in and keep going:)

The machine will probably end up being the base for the NAS drive.  It
won't get much dustier than anything else in my home office.  I'll have
a KVM hooked up to it for the once in a blue moon that I need direct
access.

I would consider a re-flashed router for the task if it could hit the
list of applications I had mentioned earlier.  I was leaning to a light
desktop because of things like the USB ports and media slots.

Cheers,
J.J.



On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 17:21 -0400, simon at mungewell.org wrote:
> > For the replacement machine I'm looking for something with as few moving
> > parts as possible.  Passive cooling and booting from a USB memory stick
> > (or other flash media) will earn bonus points.  I also want to cut the
> > power down as much as possible too.
> 
> For booting from USB/Flash media you need to be careful about how the
> system uses it's root disk, you might find that some random part of the
> system is re-writing the disk and this could cause premature aging on the
> flash drive.
> 
> If this is something of concern, you might consider using a bootable
> CDImage, burnt to USB (no moving parts or laser to fail) and keep
> accumulating logs in a seperate partition on the USB drive.
> 
> It is relatively easy to assemble a CD based Debian system with the
> Debian-Live project.
> 
> 
> Questions:
> Is this machine going to be buried in basement/closet somewhere? Dust
> buildup will affect passive cooling performance.
> 
> How critical is it that the logs are not lost?
> 
> Would you consider using a re-flashed router for the task?
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon.
> 
> 
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