Setup Emby in Rockstor

[Sky12016 3]

Hello world,

 

As I am in the process of building my media server (Rockstor NAS), I am doing my homework and studying upon configurations, settings, setups etc.

 

Since there is no official documentation (as of yet) regarding Emby setup in Rockstor I have some questions for anyone that has got it working already.

 

First my setup:

• 1 SSD for Rockstor installation
• 2 hdd setup in a raid1 pool for my movies
• 2 hdd setup in a raid1 pool for tv shows et al

 

When installing Emby as a rockon in Rockstor it asks for two shares: one for Configuration and another for Media.

 

I am guessing the Configuration share is the place where Emby keeps all its settings and its database (correct me if wrong); so I would want to have this on my SSD.

 

As for the media share I am a bit puzzled because "A Share is a chunk of space carved out of a Pool" and my media is not in one pool. My media files come from two separate shares out of two different pools.
So my question is how do I go configuring that? And if later I can point Emby to a different share from its webui; couldn't I just create the media share on my ssd and have setup both my media shares in Emby's webui?

 

 

Indulge me.

[mastrmind11 722]

Yes to the config stuff going to ssd.  

Forget about what their definition of a share is.  You can add multiple shares to Emby and it'll scan them all independently.  For now, Raid 1 is good enough but as you expand there are better options assuming you don't want to lose anything.  As your shares grow, you can add them as libraries to Emby and they'll integrate across multiple disks/servers/whatever.  

[Sky12016 3]

Yes to the config stuff going to ssd.  

Forget about what their definition of a share is.  You can add multiple shares to Emby and it'll scan them all independently.  For now, Raid 1 is good enough but as you expand there are better options assuming you don't want to lose anything.  As your shares grow, you can add them as libraries to Emby and they'll integrate across multiple disks/servers/whatever.  

 

I don't mind about the definitions they give. The "share" is essentially a folder.

So I was wondering about the first "media" folder it asks for in the initial installation.

 

With regard to redundancy I didn't quite get what you mean.

What are my better options on expansion?

 

Regards.

Edited January 13, 2018 by Sky12016

[dcrdev 255]

I don't mind about the definitions they give. The "share" is essentially a folder.

So I was wondering about the first "media" folder it asks for in the initial installation.

 

With regard to redundancy I didn't quite get what you mean.

What are my better options on expansion?

 

Regards.

 

Well raid 1 is a mirror, so you only have protection against 1 drive failing.

 

Raid 6 or 10 for example had protection against up to 2 drives failing - raid 10 it has to be the right 2 disks, raid 6 it can be any 2 disks.

 

That being said you shouldn't use raid 5 or 6 with btrfs because there is a massive write hole bug that makes those modes very dangerous: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56

 

To be honest you shouldn't use btrfs for any type of raid - it's not ready yet and there have been numerous bad design decisions from the offset. 

[mastrmind11 722]

^^ yup.  I have a an 8 drive zfs pool set up mirrored 2 at a time, so I'd need to lose 2 drives simultaneouslt in the same mirror to lose everything on that mirror.... odds are quite small, esp if you scatter different model runs amongst the mirrors.  Again, it might not matter to you enough to be a concern... 

[Sky12016 3]

My data matters very much to me, that is why I will be also keeping an external backup.

 

And as for my setup I am currently dealing with 4 disks have equal size only per pair; so raid1 mirror and protection over 1 disk failing per mirror will have to suffice.

 

Btrfs seemed like a challenge and that's why i chose it. Besides; CentOS is red