You know, I was worried that my main HTPC would be overloaded, with Myth commercial flagging, transcoding, and storage server operations like ssh encryption and checksumming.
But clearly storage server operations should be carried out by the storage server. This'll be a little qbox-f mini-ITX system in the garage in case of fire or theft. So I could iSCSI the HTPC's RAID0 volume to the storage server, hopefully through an SSH tunnel, and the storage server could merrily do the rsync, checksumming, and whatever operations, while the HTPC does its proper jobs. When not in use the storage server would sleep. Sure, the storage server will be just an Atom or Geode, but as long as its operations don't take more than 24 hours it's OK.
--- On Mon, 10/26/09, adfas asd <chimera_god@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Doug, this was very
> helpful. I had seen the checksum option, but sometimes
> something doesn't register as useful unless there is
> independent confirmation.
>
> And understand that I am not 'shooting down' anything to be
> obstinate; I am testing and probing for the -best-
> solution and systems, and hoping something good pops
> out. Some of the sensitive will take offense, but I
> suggest that all benefit when we get substantive responses
> such as yours.
>
> I had tried afio and cpio in the past, but frankly could
> not figure it out to use. Seems like a good
> concept. Maybe it's been made more accessible by now,
> or maybe I'm not as dumb. BTW, I am a real estate
> developer, not a coder.
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