[mythtv-users] WAY OT: Storage designs

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 20:23:35 UTC 2010


This is way off topic, but since Newegg sent me 2 bad computer
components out of 4, I am ending up with too much free time to
research how I want to implement this stuff  :)

Since my single core revos did not have enough horsepower to also act
as a file server while doing backend and frontend duties (or without
those as well), I went ahead and bought a PC and am migrating storage
and BE duties to it (when it works - I'll never buy from Newegg again,
but that's another story)..

I have been looking at SCST (or the likes) and iSCSI targets versus NFS/CIFS...

Has anyone implemented this and have performance data?  I am
netbooting all of my FEs, so would need root to be on an iSCSI target
as well as all of the laptops in the house for backup purposes..  I
have used iSCSI in the past - just not as an in kernel software module
- it outperformed NFS in my tests then, but that was prior to
in-kernel nfs4, so I have no recent data.

Regardless - I'm going to test it, but other *horror* or *praise*
stories are very welcome.

Thanks

-Greg


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