[mythtv-users] mythburn addition - iso organization

Stephen Boddy stephen.boddy at btinternet.com
Thu Apr 13 12:03:04 UTC 2006


On Thursday 13 April 2006 05:17, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > 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.

Hmm. My other message hasn't appeared yet, but here's a more current program 
to limit copies:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmr/
-- 
Steve Boddy


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