Building a Riak Cluster on Raspberry Pi

Building a Riak Cluster on Raspberry Pi(basho.com)

77 points by eredmond 13 years ago | 8 comments

zenocon 13 years ago |

| Then reboot. You can just unplug it. At this point I wouldn’t worry about file corruption. If the thought bothers you, you can run sudo shutdown now, then unplug.

I wouldn't recommend just unplugging it. I have corrupted more than one RPi sd card this way. Do the latter, it will save you a lot of time in the long run, especially after you spend all the time to download software and set it up -- do you really want to do that again.

This is a fun post. I've been using both technologies recently -- I'm thinking of ways I could practically apply this...hmmm

tjoff 13 years ago | |

dd if=rasppi.img of=sdcard

And you are good to go, worth it regardless of how you shut down.

loxs 13 years ago |

I can't really understand the idea of installing "monster" software onto tiny machines. I wouldn't be totally puzzled if this post came from some hobbyist, but it is released by Basho itself. So what's the idea?

vidarh 13 years ago | |

These "tiny machines" are still massively larger/faster/more flexible than the enterprise workhorses of not that many years ago...

The challenge of getting "monster" software onto them is an interesting exercise in part because it reveals a lot about the software when you see how it acts on machines that are constrained and slow by modern standards.

I feel I still learn far more from working on platforms with severe resource constraints than elsewhere, because a lot of issues that still affect larger systems but that are masked suddenly become massive in-your-face challenges.

And of course it can simply be just fun.

matthavener 13 years ago | |

You could take advantage of the replication for some kind of highly reliable monitoring device: take different samples with each raspberry pi, the data is duplicated on N devices, and then you can come back later to collect not worrying about sd card or device failure.

shrughes 13 years ago | |

The idea is advertising.

nivertech 13 years ago | | |

Besides advertising it can be PoC of running NoSQL workloads on ARM architecture.

wwkeyboard 13 years ago | |

"I thought it might be fun to create a Riak cluster on a set of Pis I had lying around... Note that cluster isn’t fit for any purpose in its current form."

RTFA