2014-01-22, 15:42
(2014-01-22, 15:36)MilhouseVH Wrote:(2014-01-22, 15:18)jacintech.fire Wrote: ...and enlighten me, how EXACTLY is this crazy? Please list a couple of nightmare scenarios that await me in some distant future...Take your time, I will wait...
You're not managing your resources effectively, and you're adding masses of overhead for no benefit. You're in denial that disks fail, as you are about database corruption. As you've come to realise, a bit late I might add, accessing your media scattered across 1024 independent partitions is a major headache. Your lack of redundancy (and your attitude towards it) is frankly breathtaking (no doubt born out of naivety).
There are a multitude of volume management options available to you that would have meant you didn't need to create this monumental embarrassment, and could have avoided all the problems you have created for yourself. Nobody in their right mind, with any technical competency or common sense, would have created such a system as you now have.
Many of us work in environments with more storage than yours, and with more files than yours, and so can probably speak with some authority when they say your setup is a complete joke (a bad one).
Ok. Give an example in which this setup (as it applies to XBMC) is a nightmare...
(2014-01-22, 15:41)MilhouseVH Wrote:(2014-01-22, 15:27)jacintech.fire Wrote: Con you please describe with examples as it relates to XBMC, the "hell" or "nightmare" you believe I am experiencing...
It seems that you've created your setup just so you don't have to search for a file. I mean, really? Or is that some sort of backward justification for creating such a horror show?
It's difficult for us to describe what you might consider to be "hell" when you seem to be appalled by the concept of searching for a file.
Again, give ONE example in which this setup, as it applies to XBMC is a nightmare...
But then, I'm that sorta person.
Master is now holding all the locations for my info and what machine I am running XBMC on along with my settings and other items pertaining to how XBMC is set up on my machine. As Master grows from others that have and object store running on their machines, gathering all the same type of info, it will constantly check for new or updated info on all the items in it's store, passing the updated info down to my store "Harro". No need to update ratings, or fanart, actors, etc.. , since my store is cross checking with "Master". As "Master" grows through the input of other personal stores, I could see XBMC becoming an app for all platforms without any user configuration besides the set up for a user name on the "Master" for their own store. So you down load the XBMC app, prompt asks you for a username, then where your media is located, then what skin you would like, with this info inputted, XBMC app then looks to "Master". Master sees that XBMC app has been downloaded to a NUC. Master sees all the NUC configs from it's store, along with the skin selected, along with all the media the new user has. Sends all the info on the input screen back to XBMC app and XBMC app is up and running in a matter of a few minutes. Master now has created a store for said user and will update said store as needed. 
