2010-01-25, 22:11
As I said in my post I've tried (limitedly) do use the symbolic links to share a db but had issues and since it was my buddies place and not mine was to inclined to done lots of work to get it working
however the issue I see with storing the db and cached fanart/thumb's on a server vs. locally are latency issues .. I want my setup speedy (so much so I put a ssd into my ion setup to help .. and it works wonders)
anyway, what I saw someone post once that they did is use a crontab set to 1 minute running rsync between his boxes and said that works reallynice for the db file the thumbnails folder is rsynced every 60 minutes since it's a tad bigger but doesn't get updated as frequently as db file itself .. This is what I plan to implement next time I get around to this kind of setup since it still should share watched/unwatched and stop points before I can theorically get from one room to another but it stores things locally for speed
another idea might be a hybrid where the db file is one file linked to all boxes and a thumbnail folder is rsynced to boxes every so often
however the issue I see with storing the db and cached fanart/thumb's on a server vs. locally are latency issues .. I want my setup speedy (so much so I put a ssd into my ion setup to help .. and it works wonders)
anyway, what I saw someone post once that they did is use a crontab set to 1 minute running rsync between his boxes and said that works reallynice for the db file the thumbnails folder is rsynced every 60 minutes since it's a tad bigger but doesn't get updated as frequently as db file itself .. This is what I plan to implement next time I get around to this kind of setup since it still should share watched/unwatched and stop points before I can theorically get from one room to another but it stores things locally for speed
another idea might be a hybrid where the db file is one file linked to all boxes and a thumbnail folder is rsynced to boxes every so often