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Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 week agoDo you actually need 100TB instantly available? Could a portion of that be cold storage that can be booted quickly from a WOL packet from the always-on machine when needed? With some tweaking, you could probably set up an alpine-based NAS to boot in <10 seconds, especially if you picked something that supported coreboot and could avoid that long bios post time.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t need the 100TB instantly. Most of the Linux ISOs are more for archival reasons.
Talk to me more about this NAS with WOL. :-)
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Most motherboards support wake packets sent over Ethernet. They only work on your lan, but they will start a machine or wake it from sleep. Sending a packet from another machine is fairly simple, it’s old tech. I’ve seen simple web servers that have a “send wake” button, but you could probably trigger it from a variety of things
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The WoL part I’ve got.
It’s the NAS with ~10 second boot time that can house enough drives for 80TB of data that I’m more interested in.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Alpine Linux can boot in a few seconds. Stick to something extremely simple like nfs or samba and nothing else in the boot. Or use suspend to ram with your regular OS.