Subj : *nix Licenses
To   : Kai Richter
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Mon Jan 11 2021 14:43:07

Hello Kai!

Sunday January 10 2021 16:08, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

 > 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.

Got around such a problem as well as speed issues by buying some extra kit to
allow a sata HDD to act in place of a SD card from boot.

It is a lot quicker but as the HDD passes data through one of the Pi's data
port it is not as quick as via a sata 3 port but it is a lot more reliable.

Vincent

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