linux experts?

enfield_freddy

I am just finishing a home theatre/media centre , the unit is a step up from my humble raspberry pi with xbmc on it,


the setup this time is a dedicated case , asus H81 motherboard , 13 cpu and 8g of ddr3 ,


the system boots and runs on an older 30g ssd (running openelec) the OS only needs about 300 meg




the drive placed in a caddy and connected to windows (fat 32 format) with the drive set to better performance in disk properties copies from the nas at 60-70 mb/s


so the bottle neck must be the Linux media box


I bought a second drive to hold my media on (home media , as most is streamed online) , installed it , but Linux could not see it?


bit of reading shows that Linux cannot "see" NTFS , so far I have reformatted in FAT 32 and ext4 (?) using mini partition tool , the disk is there but well hidden in the file system and marked as "media files) , windows can see the folder (networked) along with the home folders on the storage (main drive)


I have a nas drive and can copy files from it using my desk PC




copying is VERY slow , I can copy file from the nas to my PC in excess of 75mb/s , but from the nas to the Linux on fat or ext4 , its almost down to single figures


if its any help the nas is a dlink dns 320l with 2 x 3g WD red in raid , I believe they are a Linux format,


what is the quickest file sys to put on the drive in the media player ? , also the quickest to be read by the Linux sys




I am sat here watching 866 meg with a eta of 8 hrs 30 mins!!!

tavernman

Are you copying from the NAS via your PC ? or straight from the NAS to the Media Box?

enfield_freddy

I am copying via my computer , all running thru a gig hub/modem


how else can I copy?


there is no command prompt in openelec (plus no keyboard/mouse)


the answer yto my question last week regarding adding a drive to a media player ,,, not ntfs

tavernman

Using PC means copy to PC then a/v scan as you go then retransmit to the openelec.
You need to telnet to the openelec box for the command prompt

Try smb/cifs http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Mounting_network_shares or from the command prompt on openelec you could use something like lftp to get the files from your NAS via ftp http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/faq/network-storage-and-backup/nas/dns-series/uk_dns_how_do_i_setup_ftp

enfield_freddy

thanks , that wiki article is very old , probably as old as openelec 3 , we are now on openelec 5


where is the command prompt? there is,nt one , as its a cut down Linux with just one program.


if I want to edit any system files , I log in with putty , or if I want to edit any seeable ones I use note ++ ,


on openelec 5 , the files on a nas are clearly seeable and can be added to your media library , without any of the above ,


regarding the dlink , thanks for that page will read thru it tomorrow , after those files copy

tavernman

Putty is a telnet / ssh client, and what do use to edit the system files?, I haven't used openelce, but my Humax uses busybox which is similar to an embedded linux. Next time you log in try entering wget -? and post the output, using edit select all fro putty terminal and then copy and then paste here.

enfield_freddy

sorry , going over my head there , I am a windows / dos man , not Linux , the only reason for using putty was to alter the cpu frequency on the rasp pi , and attempting to do this http://youtu.be/QV_QmDKx0kQ this morning , yup I got the codes , but could not read his online txt , to continue , so gave up

enfield_freddy

to add , I am copying over 700g of films over (968 films) this will be a one off , as copying a single film will just take minutes via windows/lan


the initial enquirey was regarding the best file system to put on the storage drive , ext4 will be seen by Linux , but hard in windows any other choices that are useable by Linux to read , and for windows to add/edit?

esuhl

Windows natively supports CIFS (also known as Samba or SMB) to transfer files over the local network, whereas Linux tends to use NFS. To communicate between two machines, they need to use the same protocol. For some reason, people usually install Samba on their Linux box, but I've found performance to be much better if you install NFS in Windows and use that instead.

There's some interesting stuff here:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/nfs-share-on-windows-kick-the-cifs-habit.15796/

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Hang on... are you just trying to copy files from an external HDD to a machine running Windows?

In that case, you can use a program like Ext2Read to access ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems on a Windows PC.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/

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I'm a bit confused as to what you're trying to do...

tavernman

enfield_freddy wrote: »

to add , I am copying over 700g of films over (968 films) this will be a one off , as copying a single film will just take minutes via windows/lan


the initial enquirey was regarding the best file system to put on the storage drive , ext4 will be seen by Linux , but hard in windows any other choices that are useable by Linux to read , and for windows to add/edit?

Think you may be missing the point, when you see the files in Windows they are accessed via your Network in windows(file) explorer on your mediabox ...yes? It's the same with your NAS on Windows too.... The boxes are using SMB/CIFS protocol , the underlying file system is Transparent to the client box, hence I suggested the link earlier , however this one may be better , but it seems the same to me http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Mounting_network_shares

Edit It is the same but it should still be relevant for openelec V5.x too

esuhl

enfield_freddy wrote: »

the initial enquirey was regarding the best file system to put on the storage drive , ext4 will be seen by Linux , but hard in windows any other choices that are useable by Linux to read , and for windows to add/edit?

Just checking... But the filesystem only needs to be "seen" natively by the machine it's attached to.

In other words, if you have a Windows machine and a Linux machine transferring files over your network, the filesystem you format the drives with is irrelevant (so long as the machine its in works!).

If you want to access an external drive using both Linux and Windows machines, the best thing to do might be to pick one system (Linux or Windows), format the drive to be compatible with it, plug the drive into that machine, and if you need to access the files on a Linux machine, just share them over the network.

(Ah! Looks like tavernman beat me to it!)