The pi has a MicroSD card slot, which my intuition tells me wouldn't be
the best for NAS, or to be read/written to by many users at once. I'm /thinking/ of just using the MicroSD for the /boot partition, and
sending everything else to a USB-3 HDD or SSD.
I never used arm stuff before, so i don't know if netbsd would be the
best choice, as i was originally planning. On the NetBSD website, it
says the Pi4B is supported as long as you load the uefi firmware to the MicroSD first, but I don't know how well it will work, or if I should
stick to a Pi-specific OS.
--- Quotas ---
I want to give everyone 500MB - 1GB of disk space, but I don't know if there's a way to limit that to /per day/ rather than /in total/.
Anyway though, time to make cofe.
Pi3 and Pi4 can boot directly from USB, the other ones theoretically
only need bootcode.bin on a small SD card to boot the rest from USB or
even network.
ΓÇöΓû╖ https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/
...ooor use this NetBSD-9.99-image:
ΓÇöΓû╖ https://github.com/ebijun/NetBSD/tree/master/RPI/RPIimage/Image/aarch64
But maybe the arm64 image with manually updated boot stuff is NetBSD-9(-stable)? That would be a reason to prefer that way...
Quota per day? Never heared that before. You're mixing that up with
network traffic?
Covfefe fortete?
Hello! Sorry if this is the wrong group to start this discussion (I have
no idea how newsgroups work).
The pi has a MicroSD card slot, which my intuition tells me wouldn't be
the best for NAS, or to be read/written to by many users at once. I'm /thinking/ of just using the MicroSD for the /boot partition, and
sending everything else to a USB-3 HDD or SSD.
I never used arm stuff before, so i don't know if netbsd would be the
best choice, as i was originally planning. On the NetBSD website, it
says the Pi4B is supported as long as you load the uefi firmware to the MicroSD first, but I don't know how well it will work, or if I should
stick to a Pi-specific OS.
I want to give everyone 500MB - 1GB of disk space, but I don't know if there's a way to limit that to /per day/ rather than /in total/. i don't
know how well the pi will handle it if a bunch of people started
uploading a gigabyte of pictures at the same time, so limiting transfers
to 2MB - 5MB a day might be lighter on my side, if I can.
Kind of important, I don't know how many users I'd be able to support. I
kind of just guessed "Less than 30", but I honestly don't know how much memory/processing the average user takes up. I'm sure that, at 1.5GHz
and 4GB of RAM, I shouldn't be /too/ worried, but still, I'd much rather lowball it rather than regretting my descision and deleting users.
I just want Gemini, honestly. Maybe Gopher, if there's a light enough
server that it doesn't get in the way, and of course, a tiny webserver
like darkhttpd or something, just so web users can link to my tilde. Web services won't be provided, though.
I kind of broke this post up into big sections, but I don't know if
that's, like, "Not proper netiquette" or something. Sorry again if I'm messing everything up!
It worked!Hello! Sorry if this is the wrong group to start this discussion (I have
no idea how newsgroups work).
Same so idk how old this is or if this reply will even work.
I've also been thinking of setting up a small pubnix on a raspberrypi, sort
of focused around retro/low-tech stuff (1. for the aesthetic, and 2.because
it'll be more easily run on low-power hardware.
I've only really been introduced to BSD recently, so I don't reallyknow much
about it or how it works. I mainly just have experience with ubuntu &raspbian
on the raspi, so if I make something I'd probably just go with that.Although
I have started working on a BSD project with a friend so that mightgive me
enough experience with it to actually run a server with it.
5GB orI want to give everyone 500MB - 1GB of disk space, but I don't know if
there's a way to limit that to /per day/ rather than /in total/. i don't
know how well the pi will handle it if a bunch of people started
uploading a gigabyte of pictures at the same time, so limiting transfers
to 2MB - 5MB a day might be lighter on my side, if I can.
You could probably set a hard limit (in the fs or whatever) of like
whatver you want the all time total to be, and then maybe have somesort of
cron-script that checks the useage daily and warns users if they'reclose to
going over?
prettyI just want Gemini, honestly. Maybe Gopher, if there's a light enough
server that it doesn't get in the way, and of course, a tiny webserver
like darkhttpd or something, just so web users can link to my tilde. Web
services won't be provided, though.
I don't know how heavy gopher servers are, but I'm guessing they're
lightweight. I was thinking of just not having an http server at all,to sort
of embrace that low-tech aesthetic more, and to just lower the systemload.
Hello! Sorry if this is the wrong group to start this discussion (I have
no idea how newsgroups work).
rlafuente touched on this idea lightly, although it's mostly generic
sysadmin stuff (still a fun read, though!):
https://tilde.pt/~rlafuente/docs/howto-tilde-rpi/
I'm broke as heck, so I'm really just speculating for now, and I've
written about it before a bit, but newsgroups are a cute idea and I kind
of wanted to try them out.
--- Storage ---
The pi has a MicroSD card slot, which my intuition tells me wouldn't be
the best for NAS, or to be read/written to by many users at once. I'm /thinking/ of just using the MicroSD for the /boot partition, and
sending everything else to a USB-3 HDD or SSD.
I don't know how fast USB is in practice for stuff like this, or if an OK-quality MicroSD would suffice.
--- Operating System ---
I never used arm stuff before, so i don't know if netbsd would be the
best choice, as i was originally planning. On the NetBSD website, it
says the Pi4B is supported as long as you load the uefi firmware to the MicroSD first, but I don't know how well it will work, or if I should
stick to a Pi-specific OS.
--- Quotas ---
I want to give everyone 500MB - 1GB of disk space, but I don't know if there's a way to limit that to /per day/ rather than /in total/. i don't
know how well the pi will handle it if a bunch of people started
uploading a gigabyte of pictures at the same time, so limiting transfers
to 2MB - 5MB a day might be lighter on my side, if I can.
--- Users ---
Kind of important, I don't know how many users I'd be able to support. I
kind of just guessed "Less than 30", but I honestly don't know how much memory/processing the average user takes up. I'm sure that, at 1.5GHz
and 4GB of RAM, I shouldn't be /too/ worried, but still, I'd much rather lowball it rather than regretting my descision and deleting users.
--- Services ---
I just want Gemini, honestly. Maybe Gopher, if there's a light enough
server that it doesn't get in the way, and of course, a tiny webserver
like darkhttpd or something, just so web users can link to my tilde. Web services won't be provided, though.
--- Conclusion ---
I'm just kind of going off on this cause I can't sleep and it's too
early to get out of bed (well, not anymore but it was).
I kind of broke this post up into big sections, but I don't know if
that's, like, "Not proper netiquette" or something. Sorry again if I'm messing everything up!
Anyway though, time to make cofe.
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