[SATLUG] Software RAID over USB 2.0

[Sean Carolan]

> RAID5 is very processor intensive. it's got to calculate Parity data for
> every write. If your CPU on that nslu2 can do it. Go for it, but I'm not
> sure an embedded cpu can do that very well... It may still be faster
> than the network interface IO, at which point you're okay, I think....

I might end up getting something with an on-board raid controller, or
upgrade to a kurobox or something similar.  The nlsu2 is a trooper - I
have it rsyncing about 30-40 Gb of backups on two clients with
BackupPC (backuppc.sf.net).  It's slow, but seems reliable with the
latest Debian etch kernel.