[mythtv-users] mythburn addition - iso organization
Stephen Boddy
stephen.boddy at btinternet.com
Thu Apr 13 10:59:11 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.
Well, scp has the nice and easy option:
-l limit
Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s.
And a quick google later:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/valve/
--
Steve Boddy
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