Subj : *nix Licenses
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Kai Richter
Date : Sun Jan 10 2021 16:08:56

Hello Tony!

10 Jan 21, Tony Langdon wrote to Kai Richter:

 TL> I'm one running modern software (Synchronet) on modern hardware
 TL> (Banana Pi) under a modern OS (Linux). :)

In the 486 aera i was on OS/2 until P1/133, then i had an easy migration to Debian. I used squish/2 before and it was easy to transfer the config to hpt.

 TL> Have to do the 6 monthly SD card replacement (preventative
 TL> maintenance).

Good decision. I had three USB sticks that died without any warning. My node system used LVM to bundle several disks into one volume. I bought a new disc every year until i had 4 of them ready for raid. The main advantage of non-raid LVM is the ability to merge all disks into a big one and reduce the size of the volume group to remove a disk.

I still have the idea to plug two dual sd-card readers (SD + micro-SD) into the pi and build a raid on four sd-cards or sd-card/usbstick combinations. But i don't know what performance the pi would do with that. It could be a way to get the most "wear" out of the sd or sticks.

Regards

Kai

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