> 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 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?
Don't see why not, there is a configuration option for no-cache which you may use with a diskless workstation. > 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? Again should be possible, you will have to try this. The logging process uses python's logging module which hopefully is a wrapper around syslog so it should be possible to send log messages over the LAN. May be there needs to be some code changes for this. > 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? Really anything that writes to /var/cache/freevo, TV stuff, weather and video booksmarks, but you can turn these off. > 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. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
