Re:Adventures in booting Linux on Raspberry Pi 4
by Abishek_Muthian on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:18PM
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I absolutely concur with this setup. Power supply and SD Card can make or break your RPi experience. I've been running a Pi 2 for ~5 years in this setup i.e. Sony 2A power + Toshiba SD Card + USB drives for Git (SD card and USB drives encrypted).
It's been used only as a git server 24*7 for substantial amount of code, I reboot it once a year. Using it as a Git server started out as an experiment, but worked out great until the code became large and hung-up occasionally during commit due to CPU/Memory bottleneck (in-spite of adjusting relevant Git flags).
Recently I've started putting it to other usages, so not sure whether the reliability would be the same. My RPi3 needed official power supply and better cooling to extract similar performance/reliability ; Although it officially supports booting via USB I didn't have much luck in getting it work and had to use SD Card for boot and USB SSD as Arch Linux ARM/Btrfs root[1].
It's been used only as a git server 24*7 for substantial amount of code, I reboot it once a year. Using it as a Git server started out as an experiment, but worked out great until the code became large and hung-up occasionally during commit due to CPU/Memory bottleneck (in-spite of adjusting relevant Git flags).
Recently I've started putting it to other usages, so not sure whether the reliability would be the same. My RPi3 needed official power supply and better cooling to extract similar performance/reliability ; Although it officially supports booting via USB I didn't have much luck in getting it work and had to use SD Card for boot and USB SSD as Arch Linux ARM/Btrfs root[1].
[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experien...