[fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 1 August 2013 09:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1 August 2013 08:42, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> I'm now doing quite a lot of compilation on my Chromebook and my Trim
>>> Slice.  It's OK, provided that two processes don't try to hit the disk
>>> at the same time, at which point everything grinds to a halt.
>>>
>>
>> I know that several ARMS talk to disks via the USB chain versus a
>> dedicated SATA like connection. This causes all kinds of issues when 2
>> things talk down the bus to the disk drive (just like if it is a
>> spinning disk). The same with network and other peripheals. It will
>> depend on how the hardware sees it and talks to it to know if it will
>> work well or not. [My kingdom for an ARM PCI bus :)]
>
> Send me your kingdom... there's now a number of ARM devices with PCI-e
> buses, or SATA/NICs plugged directly into the SoC so not hanging off
> crappy USB/SPI/GPIO/i2c buses :-D

But are the devices Richard has those?

> Peter



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Stephen J Smoogen.