On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 12:10 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-06-05, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote: > > I have a Lenovo m710q foobar2000 appliance under Windows 10. I like > > the > > box, it's about 1 1/2 as wide as a Lemote Fuloong Mini and about as > > deep and tall, but has slots for two, 2.5 inch drives. I thought > > about > > buying another one to use as a minidlna host under OpenBSD. > > > > Does anybody on the list have any experience with OpenBSD and > > minidlna > > on this box? > > Nothing in dmesglog, it would be nice if you could boot the one you > have > from a USB stick and email in to dmesg@.
I'm up to my ass in alligators with work right now so it will take a few days. How do I capture the output? It's been a while since I installed OpenBSD... maybe it gives me an option to mail directly from the installer? I have only a vague memory about it. > Seems it may have a real serial port, if so that's a nice thing to > have on such a small machine. It appears to yes, but since I'm running Windows on it I haven't used it. They're not cheap and the hardware is just kinda meh. The one I bought has 4G of RAM, a 256G SSD (not sure which brand, it's buried in the chassis and hard to get to) and cost 500 Euros. The one I want for the minidlna server will cost about 600 Euros and have 8G of RAM. The box I have has the i3-7100T, it's a two-banger with hyperthreading, good single CPU clocks, 3.4GHz. For the same price you can get a i5- 7400T which is a four banger but no hyperthreading, and significantly slower clocks, 2.4 GHz. Not sure what the benefit to that would be. The disk tray is a flimsy, loose-fitting piece of plastic, not very reassuring. It feels like if you swap disks and out of there a dozen times you're going to be buying a new tray. I'm sure there is better hardware around, maybe even for the same price, but these boxes are readily available from my local shop in a few different variations, and have a nice form factor and some nice features. So far I'm satisfied with it. They advertised mine with a DVD drive, and it doesn't have one of course...when I complained they sent me a USB DVD drive. The enclosure is substantial aluminum, quite sturdy. Feels like you could stack them in a big pile of other gear and nothing would go wrong. And it comes with a separate aluminum tray case with rubber feet that wraps around the bottom and goes up and over both sides (the computer slides into it) and which has a slot for a separate aluminum holder (also included) that holds the power brick. It's a nice package if you don't open it up and look inside. Not sure about the cooling. The fan is tiny. > > > Or any experience in general running minidlna on OpenBSD? > > I used to run this on OpenBSD, it worked reasonably well with the > devices I tried accessing it from. I stopped running it after I moved > my > fileshares to a separate NAS box. > > We don't have inotify and minidlna doesn't have kqueue support for > file > monitoring; run it with the -r flag to do an incremental rescan if > you > add files. Thanks, this is good news. I would prefer not to have code doing things "for" me. I tend to rip a lot of discs in big batches and then move a lot of files at once. It would be ideal to update manually. > I had some problems with the multicast bits after the routing > table change to ART, but others couldn't replicate this, maybe it was > because the machine I was running it on was multihomed. I am clueless about networking but I don't anticipate any issues. I have the Windows box roped-off from my LAN so I can't move files around easily, can't use rsync or any convenient *NIX tools etc. It will be very convenient to have OpenBSD running dlna. Thanks, /jl
