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I currently run a mini-ITX diskless frontend, it boots off a NFS root
and mounts anything it needs through NFS. The case fan is still a bit
loud but it is much quieter than when there was an actual drive in
there.<br>
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Paul Roberts wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Greg Farrell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I'm using .18 and it's great. However I wanted to do some work
to get the hard-drive to spin down and stay down unless I was recording
a show. This is because it's a mini-itx pc in a very small case so the
hard-drive is the loudest part of it and also probably the hottest (3
1/2 inch hd).
The plan was to use a 512mb ram disk as my live tv ring buffer, so that
while watching tv the hard drive could spin down without causing
problems. Either that or a usb flash key with jffs (to remove
file-system hot-spots).
With the removal of the live tv buffer in .19 can anyone give me some
suggestions on how I can still watch live tv with the hard drive spun
down? I really don't want a second backend system elsewhere.
The only thing I can think of is trying to use a journaling file-system
and see if I can up the commit interval to something huge like 500megs.
I don't know if this is possible, and unfortunately I can't find any
commit interval documentation for jfs which is what my media partition
is configured with.
If another fs could support this I'd be willing to do a backup and
format.
I really want to get rid of what noise there is from the hard drive
where possible. It breaks the illusion of a cool little media device as
it sounds like a pc.
thanks a lot,
Greg
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If you have another computer you could just try moving the hard drive to
that one, and then accessing it as a NFS drive. I've read about a lot
of people using diskless systems for MythTV.
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