[Wylug-help] Rsync is broken?

[Jim Jackson]

> > ........... I'm bidding on a Linksys NSLU2 on
> > E-Bay right now, does anyone out there run a 'slug'?
> >
> Hiya Richard I've been running my open slug with a 250gb hard drive for
> about a year now. It has my hot backups of my home directory and some of
> my own subversion repositories and my attempt at a media server with
> some music on that one day will stream to my Netgear MP101 when I'm not
> so busy programming other peoples products.
>
> The install and everything was easy - one thing that was a pain -
> getting a cross compiler to work as compiling on the slug was not a
> great idea.
>
> All in all I love the slug. It's low cost from the electricity point of
> view (it replaced a dual P3 Compaq proliant) and more than adequate for
> file storage and media serving.
>
> It's lack of processing and memory means server software in general
> won't run well e.g. apache, postgres, mysql but other older (better
> designed?/less monolithic/less functional) things work fine.

I've run Apache on a 32M RAM 200MHz ARM9 based SBC and for reasonably
non-complex webserving it worked fine. Apache itself has a reasonable
footprint, it's all the add-ons etc that bloat it.

What RAM does the SLUG have? I'm interested in trying one.

> But its I/O bandwidth is as good as any servers' when it comes to USB
> and for file storage, subversion/CVS and overnight backups it's a
> welcome addition to the office. I might get round to making it a printer
> server too...