[ILUG] Creating Large Linux Partitions on Media Server

[Gary Boland]

i recently built something similar (though smaller scale) to stream to ps3
and from there to tv. some thoughts:

transcoding on mediatomb is poor. it is fine for native formats though

ushare is good although transcoding has some performance issues (3700+ w/
2Gb ram, better hardware may help)

fuppes same as ushare

tversity (under wine). pain to set up, but the best i've discovered when
running

as regards partitions, as long as I had reasonable hardware (2C and above),
i'd put the 1Ts on a raid card and buy something cheap'n'cheerful for


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Hamilton, David <David.Hamilton at redstone.ie
> wrote:

> I am about to build a linux media server at home, and am wondering what the
> best way of doing this is.
> It has 6 x 1Tb Hard Drives, and I want most of this to be provided as one
> large, ideally RAID protected, partition.
>
> Option 1:
> Do I use the md driver to create one large 6 disk RAID-5 set and then
> partition that for boot, swap, root and then one big partition for the rest.
> This would mean booting off a software RAID-5 set, but I get the feeling
> from Professor Google that this should be possible.
> If you create a software RAID set using md, can you then fdisk that device
> as if it were a traditional disk?
>
> Option 2:
> Do I create a normal boot, root and swap on the first disk and then use LVM
> to create one big filesystem with the rest.
>
> Am I correct in saying that LVM on linux doesn't support mirroring the way
> it does on HP-UX?
>
> I am planning on running MediaTomb as a uPnP server, but if anyone knows of
> a better option, please feel free to share.
>
> Thanks,
>        David.
>
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