[mythtvnz] Deleting files

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 04:09:52 BST 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Worik Stanton <worik.stanton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 18/09/13 12:14, Criggie wrote:
> >> Long answer:  I want to separate my computing units from my storage
> >> units.  Different functions, different machines.
> > Well that statement contradicts your actions.
> > Surely keeping the TV recording all in the mythbox, and away from other
> > functions means that the backend storage should be in the backend.
> >
> > Otherwise your NAS/SAN/Fileserver is not isolated from other functions
> > and it becomes "different functions, same file server"
> >
> > Or am I reading it all wrong?
> >
>
> The backend consists of tuners, computing power and storage.  The tuners
> are attached via a USB, the storage via ethernet, to the computer.  When
> dealing with TB of data the storage is as specialised as the tuner's
> job.  Putting it all in one box (using internal hard drives and tuner
> cards) is one way to go.  But it makes upgrading hard and it makes all
> the storage unavailable (by design, can be circumvented) to other
> processes.
>
> >
> > Is your NAS able to serve space via anything except CIFs ?  NFS or iSCSI
> > might solve all your problems by avoiding this file in use error.
>
> I paid a lot of money (relatively speaking for my storage), it says it
> can talk NFS so it bloody well better!  I am unfamilier with iSCSI.
> I'll look it up.
>
> I will be taking it back to the shop as it has 2 1TB discs and I see
> 1TB.  That is why I bought it at a shop, so I could take it back.  We'll
> see.  I paid 20% more than I would have paid ordering the parts from
> pricespy => cheapest sources.
>

Is it in some kind of RAID arrangement?
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