Actually, after some test usage... it's not actually fast enough for my tastes. Guess I'll be installing a Linux VM on my unRAID box to handle the XBMC db. Probably something light weight that doesn't come with a GUI, probably Arch since I'm familiar with getting it working now.

 

Thanks for trying it out! I was thinking it wouldn't be fast enough, especially with large DBs.

Thanks for trying it out! I was thinking it wouldn't be fast enough, especially with large DBs.

 

I think if you had a Class 10 SD (I had a Class 6), and clocked it all the way to Turbo, it'd be okay for a small library... but my sql file is 31.9 MB, and it choked whenever I flagged something watched/unwatched and CPU usage spiked to easily 40% or higher on that simple task.

Yeah probably, but there are to many "ifs" and setting everything up in a vm or maybe docker will bring much better performance :-)

Well, considering there is a Docker for MariaDB, that's perfect, now if it would just do weekly dumps and cleanup of older files like I have a batch file for my Windows box... I guess I can just add it to the list of things that my primary HTPC does (Win 7 mandatory for Media Center+Cable Card).

There is also a docker of xbmc headless. That in combination with mariadb should be perfect.

I am sure some Linux pro here can help you with your clean up script. :-)

I actually have so many odd little titles that often scrape incorrectly that I simply do it myself.

 

The only other thing I'd really like is an automated list of what files are on what drive so that in the event of a double failure I know exactly what I've lost.

Which I'm not sure if something like that already exists for unRAID or not.

 

Also... preclearing 3TB drives takes some time... lots of it. Thankfully I still get full throughput when doing three drives at once.