[mythtv-users] Optimising a diskless frontend

[Simon Tennant]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:05:32PM +0000, Matthew Mc Clement wrote:
> > Should I abandon NFS all together and look at Samba instead?  Anyone
> > running with a diskless samba frontend?
> 
> I just switched the recordings mount to Samba and had a marked increase 
> in performance. Moving around the recordings screen is much snappier now 
> and doesn't involve a 5-10 second pause I was getting with NFS when 
> changing recording groups.
Incidentally how are you automatically mounting your Samba shares?  Is
there as way to get around passwords in fstab?  Guess there is always
Kerberos but the thought of having to set that up on my mythtv box just
to run a samba share is not one I relish.

> Tuning wise with NFS I tried various things(hard/soft mounts, tcp/udp, 
> varying r/wsize's, etc) but never could it to act in a responsive manner.

Ah, the black art of NFS tuning.  I've tried almost all possible
combinations and tested with bonnie++ but cannot see a marked
improvement.  Was tempted by a GigE switch but given that throughput
averages 5-6Mbps cannot see the advantage.

S.

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