Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread aldo albanese
Thank you, very much appreciated. Aldo On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10:58 AM, Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:22:50PM +, aldo albanese wrote: on a similar topic, I'm trying to mount an nfs drive to a linux box.  I'm learning and reading

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:14:16AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: aldo albanese wrote: ...in one article someone suggested to use TCP instead in the syntax instead of UDP. In /etc/fstab: hostname:/share /local/mountpoint nfs ro,tcp,rsize=1048576 1 1

[Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:22:50PM +, aldo albanese wrote: on a similar topic, I'm trying to mount an nfs drive to a linux box.  I'm learning and reading about nfs and mounting but each article I read they mention a different way to do it.  I would like to mount QNAP NAS drive to the

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Richard Pieri
On 3/25/2015 11:14 AM, Tom Metro wrote: So rsize=1048576 is going to increase efficiency for large files, but what's the advantage for using TCP instead of UDP? There is none. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: aldo albanese wrote: ...in one article someone suggested to use TCP instead in the syntax instead of UDP. In /etc/fstab: hostname:/share /local/mountpoint nfs ro,tcp,rsize=1048576 1 1 Assuming a readonly mount for large media files. So rsize=1048576 is

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: In this case you aren't really streaming... Sure. Early versions of MythTV worked this way, with live video streamed via an NFS mount point. (Newer versions stream over a TCP protocol.) The application thinks it has a reliable file and will not be expecting to have to do

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread aldo albanese
Tom,Sorry about the misunderstanding, Verizon only gives the Cablecard not the HDHomeRun.  It works great with RPI2, Kodi and Mythtv on Virtual Server.  I had to confess, since I'm not even close to be a beginner with Linux I had some problems with the entire system. I.e. RPI would not handle