Thanks https://PCBWay.com - Today we're taking the Floppy Disk RAID even further, using the power of Void Linux on my Power Mag G5 Quad! Let's RAID together 30 floppy disks, host a website on them, and serve it up to the open internet!
What can go wrong? Nothing, of course!
🍎 RAID explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa0RTgxJJy8
🍎 The Wayback Machine picked up the site lol: https://web.archive.org/web/20220715175852/http://totallynormalwebsite.ddns.net/
🍎 mdadm guide: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/A_guide_to_mdadm
🍎 How I circumvented the I/O cache, which is a very silly thing to do: https://serverfault.com/questions/30240/disable-all-disk-caching-for-apache2-on-linux
🍎 ext4 without journaling: https://www.quora.com/Ext4-Is-it-possible-to-use-ext4fs-without-journal?share=1
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