[mythtv-users] mythburn addition - iso organization

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Thu Apr 13 04:17:36 UTC 2006


    > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:36:12 -0700
    > From: "Daniel A. Segel" <mythtv at archer-segel.com>

    > Slow, yes. Dangerous, no. I do this all the time because my main media 
    > server is not the same machine as my Myth box. The media directories are 
    > NFS mounted on various devices throughout the house, including my Myth 
    > box. After I create a DVD via MythBurn I move it over to the media 
    > server for permanent storage. It takes a while to move, but I've never 
    > had a problem as a result of the size. I'm actually planning on 
    > upgrading to a gigabit network sometime this summer, and that should 
    > speed things up considerably.

Just be careful to benchmark that new network's operation first.
A gigibit network running at full speed can use up a huge percentage
of a PCI bus or a disk's I/O bandwidth, and I could certainly see one
causing a backend that's recording several streams to glitch them.
For that reason, even though I have a gigabit switch, I haven't
bothered to try out gigabit NICs in my frontend or backend machines.

(And also because some gigabit NICs can be a little unstable, and
because I'm loathe to give up a PCI slot in the backend or buy entire
new motherboards just to get gigabit on the board, and because I
rarely move large chunks of data in such a way that I actually have to
sit there and wait for it to finish, so it doesn't really matter if
I've "only" got 100baseT---I still vividly remember 10baseT.)


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