[mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

[Matt Picker]

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 <patadeloso at san.rr.com> 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
> >
> 
> 
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