I understand. We don't plan projects by dollars either. We use the subscriber/year unit for calculating project costs.
My thought was that the less you mess with the out of the box BA the less likely you are to have grief with it. The sound storage server is completely autonomous and you can use about any stable *nix you like to. In your case, ZFS is very attractive because it is very forgiving about adding non-matching storage to an array. You could add a SATA controller card and add SATA drives as needed later. Even if you want to transition completely to SATA from e SCSI drives, ZFS will make that easier. We've been running a separate server environment for Rivendell here from the outset and never had any problems or artifacts I could tie to network file service. The file server and the playout clients all have direct connections to a common Ethernet switch so congestion and latency has never been a problem. Divide and conquer! Bill - KPTZ - Port Townsend, WA Sent from my iPad On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Nathan Steele <nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com> wrote: > I don't disagree, and am running a networked setup now but I am using > older servers with SCSI drives and as such have six 74Gb scsi drives to > put in this one, which will replace our current server(which will be > switched to backup duty. I have /var/snd, mysql, and the CAE running on > the server, airplay runs on a seperate machine, and production on a > seperate machine with its CAE local. I like the thought of not having > the audio leave the server for playout to air. the longer term plan is > to replace all the machines with newer (SATA) hardware, but we are a > non-comm that is just going on air so we need money coming in first. the > curent servers were ones I had in my personal server lab not being used > for anything important. long story short I just need this one to work > for maybe the next 6 months... > > Nathaniel C. Steele > Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director > WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM > > On 8/16/2012 2:32 PM, Bill Putney wrote: >> One way to go is to forget about running Rivendell on the /var/snd file >> system computer. If you need that much storage, set up a computer with BSD >> or Solaris X86 and build a ZFS store to put your /var/snd on. Offer it as an >> NFS share and after you get your simple/tiny disk Broadcast Appliance built, >> mount /var/snd from the NFS share. >> >> You'll have all the advantages of a high reliability, flexible and easy to >> administer file server which can have lots of cooling fans (since it doesn't >> have to be in the studio) and you'll have a simplified Rivendell >> installation that can be put on a quiet, low power small foot print computer >> in the studio. >> >> A lot of places put the MySQL server on the separate machine but I think >> it's easiest to just let the BA disk install put that on the playout >> station. You can't hardly buy drives smaller than 320 GB these days and you >> only need about 10% of that for a full Rivendell installation if the audio >> storage is somewhere else. >> >> Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Nathan Steele <nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Not really a Rivendell problem.... >>> >>> Dell poweredge 2850 with Perc4/dc raid controller, broadcast appliance >>> install doesn't see the disk...any idea how to fix this? I have six disk >>> setup in a raid 5 ready to go. >>> >>> I can take out the raid card but don't know how to setup the software >>> raid, and I have to use raid to get enough space for my /var/snd..... >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> -- >>> Nathaniel C. Steele >>> Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director >>> WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>> Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >>> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
