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How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server

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Re: How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server

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Post by Nursie »

gbog wrote: post #24

To those always replying to raspberry articles that it can be done with other setups, and that it's nothing new, I think you're missing the point: All those tutorials show that a single very cheap and well designed piece of open hardware can be very versatile and that everything we tend to see as magic is just a one page how-to long. I'm in my forties, an since I have had my first walkman I wanted to get inside the m…

Yes it's cheap.

It's not really novel though, there are a lot of other things out there that are interesting too. It's also not quite as open as it could be, for instance the bootloader on my sheevaplug from '09 was able to be hacked, flashed and updated to support more boot devices (just as an example). And some of us were doing this whole Debian/ARM box/USB enclosure/fileserver thing back in '05 with the linksys NSLU2, which wasn't much more expensive back then. Much less capable of course, but...

I guess it just rubs some folks up the wrong way. In reality it's awesome that so many people are getting an intro to linux this way, but it also feels like a bunch of teenagers who think their generation invented music :)

Re: How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server

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Post by samstave »

adeaver wrote: post #35
agumonkey wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, interesting how price point and form factor twist people's state of mind.

Not only that but recoverability. I use the Pi as a media server (files hosting on a NAS drive) and if the Pi dies, I drop $40, swap out the SD card and I'm done. I have the SD card imaged and saved elsewhere so if the card dies, I just get another, re-image and plug it in. Can't do that with a Mac Mini (what I was using)

Can you give some details on what you imaged to the SD?

Re: How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server

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Post by lazylizard »

astine wrote: post #20
Nursie wrote: post #7

The Pi is great and all, but after running setups like these for many years (ARM server + USB enclosure), I came to the conclusion you're better off with some other solution if you're transferring even a few GB around the place. Of course most of those solutions would be a lot more expensive. The HP Microserver is my current solution, with zfs. And even that could be a lot better as there's no hardware crypto support…

"As a general point of cynicism (and that seems to be my mood today) - did nobody ever have a small, general purpose computer before the Raspberry Pi came along?" Of course, but the Pi has dropped the price point considerably. The Beagle Board targets a similar market but is several times as expensive: http://beagleboard.org/

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ ???

Re: How to Build a Raspberry Pi File Server

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Post by _b8r0 »

gbog wrote: post #49
_b8r0 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have seen iPods, but can you ssh in an iPod? If you jailbreak it you can. Here's[1] a one page how-to long guide. > I have seen media centers, but can you bulk rename files or script it? Of course, providing you're using something like XBMC. For renaming you don't even need to script, there's friendly programs[2] out there if you want. > Now with my raspberry I finally got my dream for real, and I can even ssh to…

I didn't made myself clear enough. I know I can ssh to an iPod, and to my Android phone, but I don't own anything there, I cannot install vim with the few plugins I like, I cannot install and use unison to sync files. In also sshed to a printer, but what can you do there?

I'm sorry but you keep saying that you can't do things that are eminently possible.

You can install vim and unison on an iPod. If you jailbreak an iPod you can get a full compile stack from cydia.

As for a printer, that's not what we were talking about. You seem to have made an apples (no pun intended) to oranges argument. Of course you're subject to the limitations of whatever OS you're dealing with. Printers that provide SSH access do so to allow you to securely administrate the printer, not to run vim. That's not to say that you can't run vim on a CUPS print server box and do what you want that way.

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