Damn Small Linux - Not!

[IDC]Dragon · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Hannover, Germany

I've switched (my Epia EN15000 wannabe home server) to RC3 a couple of days ago. Nice wallpaper, and good that Samba is included. It helped me to set up a fresh system quicker. And it has a builtin web server, maybe later I'll have good use for that.

Inside, not much improvement for my itches: (mostly copy-paste from an [url=http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/f/viewtopic.php?t=248]older posting[/url] of mine)

- I can't configure the SATA disk for idle spindown. The 2.6.12 kernel is too old to support hdparm with SATA. As a workaround, I bought a converter to IDE.

- The system doesn't respond to the power button. I need to shutdown via command/mouseclick. Then it either only powers down after prompting me to press return for a useless CD eject, or (if cheat-started with nopromt noeject) just hangs instead, requiring me to press reset or cut power. With e.g. FreeNAS, this is working flawless: just press the button and wait for the system shutting down.

- I get sub-par transfer rates with Samba. Too slow for making it a recording destination for my D-TV box, it quits recordings with overflows. The Samba version is dated, perhaps that's one reason.

- Using NFS is an alternative, but I coudn't get close to trying, NFS crashes on me when using exportfs or the cheat code start. Looks like a crash in unionfs, I can post the lengthy message, but it is similar to the big green I posted [url=http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/f/viewtopic.php?t=241]here[/url]

Is there any hope for me?

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

I am not really building DSL-N as a micro server, but...
I use fuse/sshfs for my remote mounts as it is much simplier than setting up NFS.

As far as newer kernel, it will come in time.
Right now, this is the train I am on. There is always another train leaving the station. And rather than wait, I went with this one. It is not to say when. It will come.