Re: nbd vs. failing HDDs (was Re: Status)
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 09:11, Jakob Eriksson <jakob@vmlinux.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:10:45PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Wouter, how does nbd perform? Do you think a root-on-nbd sy‐
>> stem could help with the issue of dead old hard discs on the
>> older buildds? (I know some OpenBSD developers use NFS, but,
>
> ATA over Ethernet, AoE, works fine for me, even as a root
> disk, on a number of x86 systems. I see no particular reason
> why it would not work splendidly on m68k too.
> Possibly that could make Amigas boot from diskette only?
If there's anything broken on my Amiga, it's the floppy drive...
It's one of the mechanical things that's difficult to replace, as HD Amiga
floppy drives are special.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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