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Linux ARM and SD Card Performance – Let the Fun Begin!

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 21, 2012 by RGApril 21, 2012

Despite previous ‘tweaks’, I have been experiencing continuing problems with SD Card Linux performance, and with the unreliable operations of yum / rpm, with associated db corruption, when they have to be ‘killed’ after hanging.. Based on two excellent pieces of prior research: http://blogofterje.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/optimizing-fs-on-sd-card/     and    http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/optimizing-linux-for-flash-memory – I will be having a stimulating (!) time performing formatting … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., Dreamplug, Fedora, Hacks, Linux / ARM, Performance, Raspberry Pi | Tagged arm, dreamplug, formatting, hacks, linux, performance, raspberry pi, sd card | Leave a reply

ARM Backup..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 12, 2012 by RGApril 12, 2012

Just completed compile/creation of Bacula 5.2.6 armv5tel rpms from source rpm, on arm5 Dreamplug.    Now I have the file daemon running on an arm system, to back-up files over the network to my x86_64 main system..

Posted in Bacula, compilation, Linux / ARM | Tagged arm, bacula, compilation, dreamplug | Leave a reply

Upgrading a Dreamplug…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 9, 2012 by RGMarch 9, 2012

Just spent some time upgrading my ARM Dreamplug to Fedora 17 (pre-release) and kernel 3.2.9..       Kernels are compiled on my Fedora x86_64 desktop, using the armv5tel-redhat-linux-gnueabi RPM set..     I’ve installed the XFCE desktop (rebuilding some missing RPMs from source..), and hacked an old (F13) ARM version of Epiphany for a working browser (as Firefox crashes all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreamplug, Fedora, Linux / ARM | Tagged arm5, dreamplug, fedora 17, fedora arm, kernel 3.2.9, linux arm | 2 Replies

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