[mythtv] Re: Client-Server hardware arch questions?
Mark Chou
mcpcs at ivwnet.com
Wed May 14 14:29:41 EDT 2003
Issac,
I want to make sure that I've got this right. In theory, I should be
capable of netbooting from NFS, a *diskless* client to run slaved
backend and frontend processes that's local to the thin client. This
implies I only need to administrate only the NFS server (possibly w/
some XF86Config files local to the thin clients).
Any estimates what housepower(memory) would be necessary?
> > > You can do both, actually. The backend will stream the file on
the fly to
> > > the frontend for playback using TCP, but if you NFS mount the the
> > > recording directories so they're in the same place on the
frontends as
> > > they are on the backend, it'll use that instead. Currently, only TV
> > > recordings are frontend/backend aware, but I hope to change that
sometime
> > > after the next release.
> >
> > I've been curious about this as well.. So is it possible to have a
beefy
> > backend comp with two or more video cards, lots of disk space, etc,
> > and then have "thin clients" for the TV frontends, with the only real
> > requirements being TV-out? For example, the frontends would only need
> > to have 100mbit ethernet, a vid card w/ tv out, and a tiny hardrive (or
> > ramdisk?) for the OS, right? If so, that would be incredible!
> Yup. That was the whole point of the multi-month long rewrite of the
> internals for the 0.8 release =) Remote frontends are incredibly
easy to
> setup, too. All you have to do (beyond having a working linux
install, etc)
> is to compile mythtv, edit mysql.txt to point to the mysql server
that it's
> sharing with the backends, and run mythfrontend. Everything else is
done
> totally automatically.
> Isaac
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