[mythtv-users] Linux wall wart pulls 5 watts - could make a great master backend

[Tom Lichti]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking about this thing last night, and I don't think I'd want
>> it as a master backend, at least in my case, because my MySQL db is on
>> the master, and I doubt this thing could carry the load of the DB,
>> along with everything else it would need to do. It could slot into my
>> setup very easily, since my master has two HDHR's on it, and two
>> PVR-x50's that I will be de-comming soon, and uses a couple of NAS
>> servers for disk.
>
> A master backend server does /not/ have to run the database, it can be
> on another machine.

I never said it did. I said *my* MySQL DB is on my master backend. At
one time I did have it on another server until I consolidated them
down to one.

>
> However that would kind of defeat the purpose of what we are
> discussing, ie having the wallwart as the /only/ 24x7 device.

Exactly my point. If I have to run the MySQL server on another box,
then this is just superfluous.

Tom