[mythtv-users] Centralized NFS (NAS?) video partition

Jonathan Tidmore jtidmore at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 06:38:26 UTC 2006


There are some NAS appliances out there like the Buffalo TeraStation or the
Infrant

On 1/9/06, David Bennett <davidbennett1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please allow me to apologize for the mangling I am about to do to the
> following terminology. I am still feeling my way around Linux and know
> what I want to do, just am not sure how to go about doing it (or if it
> is possible.)
>
> I have been getting some help with some software RAID problems I have
> been having, and after reading many of the responses I have been
> inspired to rework my system.
>
> Here is what I would like to do:
>
> I would like to develop a storage system that can:
>
> 1) have enough bandwidth/speed (whatever) to be used as the /video
> partition on a mythtv system with 3 tuners.
> 2) have security (in the raid  / storage sense)
> 3) Be accessible by my home network (windows / mac / linux)
>
> Obviously #1 is most important. This needs to be able to be my /video
> partition for a fairly intensive 3 tuner system (ie three concurrent
> recordings and maybe viewing on a frontend.) (4 streams)
>
> Is this possible to do with NAS (I am guessing that NAS is referring
> to the device, and NFS is how they link together?)
>
> I would like to have my mythtv/music/videos on a storage system that
> is accessible to my network and can be put in a RAID array. I am not
> sure what to do. Should I be looking at throwing a whole bunch of my
> drives in my backend and nfs'ing (samba? or is that different) to my
> windows/mac?
>
> Is there a more elegant solution to have just the storage somewhere
> and hook it up via a network? (can 10/100 handle this or do I need to
> switch to giga-something networking?) (currently my mac watches mythtv
> over my wireless .g network and it works great!)
>
> Is another solution to have this storage system connected to the
> backend and have the other computers on the network access it by
> network? (ie. the heavy loads will be directly through a sata or scsi
> connection, whereas the light loads will remain on the network)
>
> Does any of this make sense?
> Any advice, direction, tutorials, RTFM (with a link to where the FM
> is!) would be fantastic.
>
> thank you kindly,
> david
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-J
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