Michael Brown wrote: > Hi Folks! > > Curious if anyone has done a disk-less or flash-based Freevo strictly for > viewing materials. I just finished building a new Freevo box today for our > Bedroom, and the hard disk whine is already getting annoying (it's an older > re-purposed 30GB drive I had kicking around). To quiet it down, I'm thinking > I'll strip down the Ubuntu set-up
Please consider Arch Linux if you're Linux savvy, it's like 100 meg bare install as opposed to the larger Ubuntu. > I've got, and configure something that will fit on a USB drive for booting. > All the media is stored on a server which runs Freevo Record & Webservers. > > I've got a few Freevo specific questions on this topic... > > Can the Freevo vfs cache directory be kept on an NFS mount? > > If so, is if possible to share the vfs cache between front-ends? I have two > front-ends which are off when not in use, so it'd be nice if the server could > maintain the cache, and the two front ends just make use of it. Would there > be any issues with concurrent access? > > Can the Freevo logs/log directory be stored on an NFS mount? > > Are there any Freevo processes which require RW access to certain files or > file systems? I'm guessing the new webserver config tool will require RW to > the /etc/freevo directory, so I could make a writable /etc/ partition on the > flash drive (since it wouldn't be written to very often). Anything else? > > Any other tips or comments? > > FYI, I'm using an Antec Fusion 430 Black case, with Codeka's LIRC/lcdproc > patches for the integrated iMon Soundgraph LCD/IR. > http://codeka.com/blogs/index.php?cat=30 > > I had to re-record the MCE remote to create a new lircd.conf, since the > standard configs that ship with LIRC didn't work for me (the receiver seems > to output them differently from the standard MCE USB receiver. Freevo's LCD > plugin works with it through the patched lcdproc. > > Thanks for your time! > > /Mike > > > > > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email > the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch > to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
