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I run a NAS on a USB 2.0 boot disk, and the only issue I have with it is that systemd-journald really isn't built with slow disks in mind. Doing a journalctl operation with 6 months of log files takes a good minute or two because of journalctl's non-optimal file access patterns.

Not mentioned in the post but I also run some light server workloads on this machine and things were annoyingly slow with a USB 2.0 thumb drive.

I'm not gonna pretend that the real reason for making this wasn't because I have fun tinkering though.

It's a great project, and your solution is also technically superior to running off USB 2.0 thumb drives.

+1, I was wondering the same thing. Genuinely curious.