From: | Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com> |
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To: | sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Portable Postgres? |
Date: | 2006-09-14 01:39:52 |
Message-ID: | 10B710EF-F2AD-4E1F-AD7B-E09AC455BE17@blighty.com |
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On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Brian Ghidinelli wrote:
>
> Steve Atkins wrote:
>> I don't know what the current lifetime of flash is, but I suspect
>> that putting data (as opposed to OS or binaries) on it might be
>> painful, both in terms of write speed and the flash drive dying.
>> You could rely on copying the data onto the host PC before using
>> it, or something, but it
>
> Good points. In my case, I'm planning to use an ipod which has a
> hard drive (I think?)
Yeah, the standard ipod has a small hard drive, so that should work.
> so this should be less of an issue (but clearly we're not going to
> be raising the benchmarks on any kind of performance metric).
> Interesting idea on the mini hitatchi drives. How long is it until
> we have "computer on a stamp" that we just need to carry with us
> and plug into a "host"?
That? It already exists. http://www.projectblackdog.com/
product.html . Flash, though, so not really useful for what you need.
>
>> usable than trying to get it on flash. You could even load a
>> vmware appliance onto it and have a fair bit of your full development
>
> Can VMWare be run without being "installed" in the host computer?
I think a pre-built vmplayer can be run from a USB drive, though I
don't know how networking would work. It'd be easy enough to try. The
other option would be a bootable USB drive. IIRC Ubuntu is selling
one with Linux preloaded onto it.
A vmplayer image with a random minilinux installation and current
postgresql would be very neat. If it created a ramdisk and copied the
data area into that (so it'd run from a CD or a thumb drive) it'd be
even neater.
Cheers,
Steve
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