On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 23:00, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > > What I am not sure about is if I need to setup nfs to mount the /video > > from the master on the slave system. And if I don't does the slave > > backend have a way to save the recorded files to the /video file system > > on the master? > > You don't have to use NFS - the slave can store the captured files > locally. And when a frontend requests to view that program the slave > will stream the file to the client. > > The reason that people use NFS is so that if the slave isn't available > you can still watch the content, because the master backend will have > the file. That's what the masterbackend override toggle does: if the > masterbackend can stream the file, it will.
That is great news. So each backend system does its own auto deletion calculations based on space available in the local /video file system? So which is the preferred setup? NFS or local storage on slave backends? Any calculations on how many streams a 100Mb LAN connection can support? Thanks for explaining this.
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