Paul Webster wrote: > There is no 100% certain place that it should be. > > Some people do not like having LMS (or the system it is running on) > being able to write to the place where the music is stored to reduce the > possibility of something going horribly wrong and a carefully created > (but not backed up) collection gets destroyed (at least I assume that is > the main reason). > The drive might also be noisy and will consume more power. > > Also - if the music is stored on a NAS and LMS is running somewhere else > (e.g. RPi) then having the cache over a network link may well make > things slower. > > Having the cache on the local SD card where LMS is booted is the default > for pCP so is probably how it is set for many installations. > The fear there is that either the SD card is too small to hold the > database files that LMS uses (could easily be multiple GB when there is > a lot of artwork/artists along with plugins that fetch and store extra > info) or that having frequent writes to the SD card (LMS writes data > back to the card for logging and current playlist) might reduce the > lifetime of the card.
Ok thanks Paul. So, I have to decide what is the more important for me, my SD Card or my music collection (even if I have two backups). I didn't realize that the database could reach multiple of GB. I understand why I got problems when I expand the file to only 300 MB :). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zabizabo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110727 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
