[mythtv-users] Shared Firewire Drive??

Bryan mythtv at hb-computers.com
Tue Apr 18 15:31:14 UTC 2006


I don't think I am going to do GFS in my Myth setup no that I think about
it. I will however be building a RHEL Cluster using GFS in a Production
environment here at wor and will let you know how it goes.

Thanks for everyones input.... I learned alot!

> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:53:26AM -0400, Bryan wrote:
>> Thanks for all of the input, this is why I asked the question. I have a
>> firewire enclosure that does allow it cause I just got done testing an
>> install of Oracle 10G with Rac and used this drive as the shared disk. I
>> will look into GFS. I don't think I want to break it into two file
>> systems.
> If you get anywhere, I'd like to know - I've been looking at GFS for
> other things, and keep meaning to try it with a shared firewire disk :)
>
> You /might/ be better just getting a gigabit link between the two
> backends and using NFS - that should be plenty for 2 streams, and the
> other two would be local.
>
> It would mean that all the disk access was via a single controller,
> which is likely to improve performance (as well as allowing you to pick
> your filesystem).
>
> Obviously you end up with a SPoF, but depending on your setup you've
> probably got one anyway somewhere :)
>
> Graham
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