<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Worik Stanton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:worik.stanton@gmail.com" target="_blank">worik.stanton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 18/09/13 12:14, Criggie wrote:<br>
>> Long answer: I want to separate my computing units from my storage<br>
>> units. Different functions, different machines.<br>
> Well that statement contradicts your actions.<br>
> Surely keeping the TV recording all in the mythbox, and away from other<br>
> functions means that the backend storage should be in the backend.<br>
><br>
> Otherwise your NAS/SAN/Fileserver is not isolated from other functions<br>
> and it becomes "different functions, same file server"<br>
><br>
> Or am I reading it all wrong?<br>
><br>
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</div>The backend consists of tuners, computing power and storage. The tuners<br>
are attached via a USB, the storage via ethernet, to the computer. When<br>
dealing with TB of data the storage is as specialised as the tuner's<br>
job. Putting it all in one box (using internal hard drives and tuner<br>
cards) is one way to go. But it makes upgrading hard and it makes all<br>
the storage unavailable (by design, can be circumvented) to other processes.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> Is your NAS able to serve space via anything except CIFs ? NFS or iSCSI<br>
> might solve all your problems by avoiding this file in use error.<br>
<br>
</div>I paid a lot of money (relatively speaking for my storage), it says it<br>
can talk NFS so it bloody well better! I am unfamilier with iSCSI.<br>
I'll look it up.<br>
<br>
I will be taking it back to the shop as it has 2 1TB discs and I see<br>
1TB. That is why I bought it at a shop, so I could take it back. We'll<br>
see. I paid 20% more than I would have paid ordering the parts from<br>
pricespy => cheapest sources.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is it in some kind of RAID arrangement?<br></div><div> <br></div></div></div></div>