Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:51:32 -0400 From: Chris Slothouber <chris@hier7.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Wider=F8e_Andersen?= <wodfer@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video fileserver - Need some input Message-ID: <4641DFF4.10900@hier7.com> In-Reply-To: <23ed14b80705090712w31705d1bn9c5580fba8fc7c6e@mail.gmail.com> References: <23ed14b80705090521x7036ba6dm57771f694a861eac@mail.gmail.com> <4641CD35.3030601@hier7.com> <23ed14b80705090712w31705d1bn9c5580fba8fc7c6e@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-09 10:12, Andreas Widerĝe Andersen wrote: > On 5/9/07, Chris Slothouber <chris@hier7.com> wrote: >> On 2007-05-09 08:21, Andreas Widerĝe Andersen wrote: >>> I'm planning a new fileserver for my post-production facility and need >> some >>> input regarding filesystems and network setup. I've been a FreeBSD fan >> for >>> almost 10 years now and will try to build this server based on the >> latest >>> stable FreeBSD version, allthough most machines here run WinXP. >>> In addition to this 1-5 machines will have access to the fileserver >> through >>> a shared Gigabit network connection for making DVDs and use the files as >>> source for editing. In short: There will be two direct 1Gb network >>> connections and one shared 1Gb connection. Will the server hold up? >> Depending on the resolution and frame rate of your video, GigE is >> nowhere near fast enough a pipe for live video manipulation. This is >> certainly the case when dealing with broadcast video. > > > We're only working in Standard Definition PAL (see the datarates in my first > post). I have done DV capture tests before over the network and that worked > fine. We're already having three machines feeding from one server today and > that works fine too allthough it is a bit slow. We're mainly copying files > to local drives, but DVD creation happens straight from the server. My apologies, I totally glazed over that bit. Samba does have some performance issues out of the box (see Solon Luigi Lutz's thread from 04-10, similar situation but a little bit more later in the game). I believe there are a few tuning options for Samba<->FreeBSD that might be appropriate, esp. wrt. multi-threading CIFS. Google seems to show a lot of hits for that. Sorry again for missing the info you provided. I hope this helps. - -- Chris Slothouber (chris@hier7.com) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin BIZ: http://www.hier7.com -=- building.better.ideas PGP: 7A83 F021 5AC3 4BD7 6738 21D8 B348 0B16 79C0 C27F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQd/0s0gLFnnAwn8RAvgsAJ9Dr2oFZMMt8sfPbsMtLBJZ3hBc8gCfVRVL 8tgP0nFuv881JKe/ZRkeOQI= =jq/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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