[mythtv-users] Recommended distro?

[Karl Dietz]

On 06.07.2012 16:45, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Joseph Fry<joe at thefrys.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Earlier in the thread someone said people don't use more then 3TB for
>>> Myth?
>>>
>>
>> What he actually said is "How is this information generated/captured? I
>> wouldn't trust its accuracy considering there are missing distros. Another
>> big error is no one has more that 3TB of storage for myth. Really?"
>>
>> He could have been clearer but he is obviously questioning the validity of
>> the data at http://smolt.mythtv.org/static/stats/stats.html because it does
>> not report any systems with more than 3TB of data.  He knows that there are
>> systems with more than 3TB, so therefore the data must be inaccurate.
>>
>> In actuality, its probably an issue with how the data is stored in the
>> site's DB, they probably used an integer field and it cannot store a value
>> greater than 3TB.
>>
>
> I believe one of the developers stated this earlier in this thread.
> The field in mysql only goes up to about 2TB, which falls in the 1-3
> TB range.

that and its *filesystem capacity* not whole system storage capacity.
For my backend thats a bunch of file systems with 1.5-2TB each

Regards,
Karl