[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Tapani Tarvainen
<mythtv at tapanitarvainen.fi> wrote:
> On Aug 17 16:09, Phill Edwards (philledwards at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> I've never tried setting up a network boot. Isn't it slow to boot? If
>> you have to transfer a few GBs of data for the MythTV frontend image
>> doesn't that take a long time (even over a gigabit network it's going
>> to take some time to transfer all that data)?
>
> I get some 115MB/s over gigabit ethernet in my home LAN -
> faster than many hard disks.

I met the guy who wrote etherboot, he spoke at our LUG one night. He
maintained that downloading over ethernet was quicker than spinning up
a hard drive. Mind you that was a while, but both hard drives and
networks have speeded up since then.