[mythtv-users] Storage on SAN

[Damien Whyte]

jmyers at huskywatch.com wrote:

>
> I have a server with about 3TB of storage, and was thinking about 
> having my Myth box store it's recordings on this other Linux box to 
> utilise this extra space. I am concerned however about the potential 
> for the latency over ethernet causing problems with the recording. Has 
> anyone tried this or have any thoughts on this?
>
I have a diskless frontend/slave backend that stores recordings on a a 
master backend via NFS (as well as it's root partition). Initially I had 
poor performance writing to the NFS disk which made capture from the 
diskless machine's DVB card problematic.

Initially I was getting a write speed over NFS of somewhere in the order 
of 200 kilobytes/s. This was clearly inadequate. Once I tracked down the 
problems in my NFS configuration however the situation improved greatly.