[icecast-dev] Icecast & DB storage

[Phil Kerr]

Hi Thomas,

It's a crazy idea if you are storing a few gig's, raid 5 would do, but
we could be storing TBytes of audio and video, then using raid's or
san's becomes more of a problem.  That's why we are looking into using
the cluster management of Oracle, but pull the audio data out and stream
using Icecast instead of using intermedia.

This solution abstracts us from the filesystem, and their limits.

Big, yes, crazy.... well the least crazy option!

Phil

Thomas Kirk wrote:
> 
> Hey There Phil
> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Phil Kerr wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone had any experiences of using a DB as the source container for
> > MP3's with Icecast/IceS/Shout.
> 
> Excuse me but this just sounds to crazy for me....??? Why in heaven
> would you like to store the binary data in the database?
> 
> > What we are trying to do is store the source media in Oracle, and/or
> > Postgres, as BLOB's.  The aim is to not have the source-files on the
> > file-system so clustering and management becomes easier.
> 
> Make a hdcluster of disk in raid5 and use the db to link to these
> files thats the normal way to do it.
> 
> --
> Venlig hilsen/Kind regards
> Thomas Kirk
> ARKENA
> thomas(at)arkena(dot)com
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> 
> BOFH excuse #88:
> 
> Boss' kid fucked up the machine
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Researcher                	                     Glasgow University
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