[mythtv-users] Diskless LTSP Frontend

[Mike Perkins]

On 03/01/14 19:31, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Craig Cook <cncook001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have just posted this page:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Diskless_LTSP_Frontend
>>
>> This is the result of 4 days effort.
>>
>> Feedback welcome (good or bad;)
>>
>> I am happy to provide more detail on the wiki page, I am not sure what is
> needed though.
>
> This is very cool.  I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and I'll look
> forward to trying this out once 14.04 LTS stabilizes.
>
> In the meantime, I have a question.  I used 10.04's ltsp-build-client to
> create my LTSP infrastructure.  A big problem I have is that when the
> server reboots, the clients basically lose their connection to the server
> and fail to reestablish it, and all the clients ultimately have to be
> hard-rebooted.  I asked about this at
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/469540?do=post_view_flat#469540
> but
> never found a resolution.
>
> I'm wondering if your set of tools also has this problem.  I'm optimistic
> since you mentioned that the protocol is based on ssh (rather than nbd).
>
Different protocols, different purposes. Your choices are NFS or NBD for disk 
i/o and SSH or plain-text for console i/o.

I'm using NFS and plain-text but I'm not (yet) integrating mythtv with my 
existing Debian Wheezy setup.

I wouldn't worry too much. You wouldn't be booting your MBE that often, would you?

-- 

Mike Perkins