<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Rajil Saraswat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajil.s@gmail.com">rajil.s@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I would like to setup a front-end in an environment where power<br>
failure are a norm. The plan is to have a UPS for the backend so that<br>
it cleanly shutdown but the frontend will be on its own.<br>
<br>
So is it ideal to go for a diskless frontend (nfs mounted backend)?<br>
What happens when FE is alive and a power failure occurs, will it<br>
corrupt the backend filesystem.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>It doesn't directly address your question, but would an Ion based netbook be a good fit here? No UPS required, short outages can be survived, and you can setup automatic shutdown on low battery.<br>
<br>Does a mythtv FE need to write to the recordings / videos directories? If not, I'd just mount ro and not worry about it at all. My uneducated guess is that the only thing a FE should need to do is update the current position as a recording is watched.<br>
<br>Jason<br><br></div></div>