[Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:
> Martin, the last disk we bought, a few days ago, was $100 and half a
> terabyte.  I understand that you are trying to fit the XS into the
> preexisting XO hardware, but realistically it is unlikely to be a
> configuration a real school could use by itself.  The deployments we know

I agree. The XS-on-XO should be read as "XS on XO+ext usb hd" :-)

If the ext usb hd is usb-powered, the whole setup can survive
unreliable power and brownouts quite well, which is one of the main
factors wrt cost of the XS.

cheers,


m
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