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I actually wish they would add support for HDFS- it's not a bad way to combine lots of somewhat-small (< 2TB) disks into a sizable amount of (seemingly) homogen
by rando21951 10y ago
I actually wish they would add support for HDFS- it's not a bad way to combine lots of somewhat-small (< 2TB) disks into a sizable amount of (seemingly) homogenous storage (without having to be super clever with mount points and hard links and BTRFS and junk like that).
- bane 10y agoWhy bother? just add more directories of content to each library. Plex just merges them all at the library level. I have crap stashed over 5 drives, just plain vanilla USB drives, and plex handles them just fine.
- illumin8 10y agoData protection. HDFS replicates chunks of files across 3 different drives by default. This is configurable, but it's one of the most simple ways to protect your data from drive failures, without the performance penalty of RAID.
- bane 10y agoyeah, that's fair. Might want to see if the HDFS NFS Gateway works for this. https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsNfsGateway.html https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-project-dist/ha...
- krackers 10y agoCan't you create a zfs storage pool?