On Thu December 3 2009, [email protected] wrote: > > "Michael S. Zick": > > There is at least one, low cost (<$100USD) system, also available in Japan, > > that > > makes a good example of such a system: the ASUS O!Play, Media Player. > > Which also has a community, system's development, web-site: > > http://MiniModding.com > > run by (guess who). ;) > > By the way, I have ever developed an iSCSI module which supports > a part of multimedia command set. > I know several people are using aufs with a writable layer over > NFS-root. While NFS is very common and widely used, as an aufs readonly > layer, NBD/eNBD, iSCSI or AoE can be used too (while I myself have never > tried yet). > > The iSCSI module I have developed is actually a network software DVD > drive. If your Media Player supports the iSCSI initiator, then you will > be able to watch the DVD-movie over network with my module. The > contents of the DVD can be stored in a harddrive on iSCSI target > (server). So multiple users can watch the movie at the same time. Of > course, you should have a right to have (or broadcast) a copy of the > movie. When I developed the module, I thought it may be useful in a > hotel or a airplane. But nobody was interested in my module at that > time. > It was several years ago when I developed the module, so it won't work > on recent system. But I can upgrade it. If you are interested in the > module, let's begin our business talk. :-) > >
The ASUS, and most of the Media Players today are running a 2.6.12.6 (Aug, 2005) kernel. Is that old enough? Of course, I intend to change that sometime in the next few months. ;) Mike > J. R. Okajima > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev
