Re: Sheevaplug Questions

[Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>]

On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 08:07 +0100, Ian Barton wrote:
> However, I have now transferred to an external Freecom usb hard drive, 
> which is powered by the Sheeva (no external PSU). This had worked fine 
> for more than a month and I haven't seen any load problems.

I can confirm that a sheevaplug running debian on an external disk
can be quite stable even if used heavily (here doing compilation+tests
in loop):

$ uptime
 22:28:24 up 116 days, 10:35,  1 user,  load average: 2.13, 2.08, 2.08
$ cat /proc/version 
Linux version 2.6.30-2-kirkwood (Debian 2.6.30-8) (waldi@debian.org)
(gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-3) ) #1 Sun Sep 27 22:57:55 UTC 2009
$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             292G   35G  258G  12% /

Laurent