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pooling media libraries - like distributed storage (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I run a full media server, as well do a few friends. Now we had the idea to share our media libraries. In a first quick attempt we, mounted each other's library folder via an smb share and imported those in jellyfin (all servers connected by VPN) Works quite well, but is kind of cumbersome the more people get in. I had the following idea: distributed storage, not as in redundancy, but more like mergerfs. Each "node" allocates a certain amount of storage, say node A, B and C provide 1TB each, these get fused into a singe mount that shows up as 3TB volume. If one node goes offline, the volume will only be 2TB and all files on the offline node will of course be unavailable.

Did a bit of research and found stuff like ceph,.glusterfs or seeweedfs, all of which I guess have a lot more functionality and thus are quite complicated and a little over my head. Do you do something like that or have any good ideas how to do that easily?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
IP	Internet Protocol
Plex	Brand of media server package
VPN	Virtual Private Network

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I use Plex instead of jellyfin, but there's the ability to just add a friends library and it pulls in without mounting anything. I thought Jellydin had that as well?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

plex uses a centralized service for this kinda of nonsense. most of us are using standalone server products.

this use case calls for either centralized storage (s3 bucket) or access mechanism(all them vpns) to distributed channels (ala plex)... but friends dont let friends use plex.

im curious about ipfs as distributed file systems sound like a new kink i should have

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

tell me why i shouldn't use plex as I'm always tempted by it whenever these threads come up and everyone who uses it is so happy.

But free/libre is so much more delicious.

But don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.