[effegi]

Hello,

I'm new to the forum, but I'm a long time kodi(xbmc) user. I apologize in advance if maybe this feature has been already discussed but forum searching sometimes is difficult (and boring ).

I'd like to know if would be possible to implement a feature to use pathsubstitution for the entire "userdata" folder to be able to transfer it on a NAS. Right know I'm using an external hard drive for storaging purpose (in order not to damage MMC) so I thought it'd be great using network drive instead of a local hard drive.

Thanks

[fastcolors]

Nice idea, that would make things way easier for shared libraries.

+1

[ironic_monkey]

and make shit slow as feck in the process. anyways, just use your os and create a link..

[effegi]

Why would it be so slow?

[ironic_monkey]

Because network is a couple of orders slower than a hdd both for latency and throughput, maybe even 3 orders for an ssd.

[Ned Scott]

NetBoot the whole thing :)

[fastcolors]

Because network is a couple of orders slower than a hdd both for latency and throughput, maybe even 3 orders for an ssd.

You mean writing?

because for me I already have a shared NAS database for libraries and thumbnails, and my whole content is read from NAS, so I don't follow how much slower could it be.

as for using OS and link. I would have no clue how to do that on OpenElec.

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Netboot?? I like the sound of it.

[ironic_monkey]

uhm. Mount the folder, link with ln -s. Or mount directly. Thumbs on a nas is pretty suboptimal.. It is supposed to be a fast cache.

[effegi]

Because network is a couple of orders slower than a hdd both for latency and throughput, maybe even 3 orders for an ssd.

I'm no expert here, but I did a quick research and I found:

"Basically, a NAS server's speed varies between the speed of USB 2.0 and the speed of USB 3.0 (on a gigabit LAN)" (http://www.cnet.com/how-to/digital-stora...as-server/)

Right now I'm using a cubox-i4 with an old usb 2.0 drive and everything works fine. So I guess using my Gigabit LAN wouldn't be such a difference in terms of performance. And the same for every Gigabit Lan user.

Am I wrong?

[Ned Scott]

Netbooting allows you to host the entire OS on a network location. Many motherboards can be 100% netbooted without any local drive memory. Some devices, such as the Raspberry Pi, will still need an SD card, but can have nearly everything else on a network location.

[fastcolors]

Netbooting allows you to host the entire OS on a network location. Many motherboards can be 100% netbooted without any local drive memory. Some devices, such as the Raspberry Pi, will still need an SD card, but can have nearly everything else on a network location.

would it work fine with many devices netbooting from the same location?

i.e. 3 cubox-i (es) (openelec) netbooting from the same NAS.

[Ned Scott]

Probably, but I've never tried it on a Cubox-I.