I'm no seasoned pro myself but I would go with the external scsi solution. You can usually find a scsi card and an external enclosure for a steal somewhere. Like if you happened to work at a company that kept old equipment... :) Another solution would maybe be to isolate the file server from your network with just either a crossover cable or a small hub connecting it to your master backend. You would of course need 2 nics in the master. I'm not sure how well it would work with livetv if you went from backend--->fileserver--->backend--->frontend. Might have to make sure you got a lot of bandwidth between the file server and backend. Good luck.
--- Bear Paw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disk I/O shouldn't be a problem, all disks we are > planning on using are > either FC (we have 2x36GB drives) or SCSI320 (we > have like a box of them) > and we want to use a Sun Blade 1000 (2x900MHz > uSPARCs with dual PCI buses > and FC controller). I think I'll tell my roommate > that we need it all on one > system and just get an Ext. cage for the SCSI > drives. I want to avoid using > NFS because of bandwidth. We have 5 people living > here all with Interweb > addictions ... > > > Bear Paw wrote: > > > Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV > but I've been tracking > > > its progress for some time. My question has to > do making a really weird > > > setup. > > > > > > System one: 4 tuner cards, records and encodes > shows and transfers them > > > to fileserver > > > System two: File server, this will hold the > MythTV backend and dish out > > > files to all the frontends. > > > System 3-N: MythTV frontends > > > > > > What we really want is for SysOne to cache the > files to its harddrives > > > then transfer them to SysTwo. > > > > > > Is this doable or should we just try to put it > all on one system? > > > > It's good that you are thinking about two server > machines but > > you may be thinking about it the wrong way around. > It is not > > a good thing to put lots of cards in the same > system. It isn't > > just a matter of having enough CPU but there is > PCI bandwidth, > > disk cache, IDE bus contention, memory, and kernel > scheduler > > time slices that the recorders need to compete > for. One card > > per system is best, two is usually acceptable. > More than that > > is possible but not beneficial. > > > > You should think about putting cards 1 and 4 in > one machine > > then 2 and 3 in the other. Put local disks in both > machines > > although you could put all you big disks in the > machine with > > card 1 and NFS mount for the other machine but > this is not > > as efficient in several ways. > > > > -- bjm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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