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I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by _joel »

rootsudo wrote: post #8
Nextgrid wrote: post #3

I'd expect the vast majority of IO requests to be served from the kernel's IO cache (we're talking 30 * 1.44MBs here so just under 50MB, trivial for even an old computer to hold in RAM), thus I wouldn't be surprised for it to be very fast and reliable as long as he sticks to read-only workloads - those would never actually touch the floppies beyond the initial read.

Would it be more fun to run a live cd webserver only? piece together an old computer, with an old live linux installation, and either run it unupdated or patched and carrying updates it can only apply w/o reboot?

A Knoppix 4 CTF doesn't sound too challenging, tbf mate

edit: thinking about it, there's some good educational value, but maybe via vm than plopped on the interwebs :D

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by voxadam »

hotpotamus wrote: post #18
LarryPage wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did watch -n 1 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' to try and get around it. I think it's working, because boy is it noisy lol

I'm used to referring to lots of IO as "noisy" or "chatty", but then I imagine sitting next to 30 floppy drives and that brings it to another level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI
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