Sponsored By
Efika 5200B Project
NAS solutionin category Hardware
proposed by pkern on 16th February 2006 (accepted on 20th March 2006)
Project Summary
EFIKA could be, once in mass production, a cheap NAS solution through its ATA or, if it has a low throughput, by using the USB2 host controller to connect storage devices. As NAS tend to be single point of failures in a network I intend to evaluate the possibility to use technologies like e.g. multicasting to create NAS nodes which mirror eachother completely, with as much throughput and as less network penalty as possible.I would create a mini-distribution with tools from the Debian project as a basis (as I am a developer of that distribution) and try to do in an embedded way (optimized kernel, low size). The code could be saved either on the ATA port with a flash-on-IDE device if the USB2 controller is used or vice-versa on an USB stick. It would manage the used harddrive completely by itself, without further need to configure. To detect its peers automatically technologies like Zeroconf could come into action (by using Avahi).
This would, however, require two components for testing of the hotplug / failover functionality.
Project Blog Entries
