Im thinking about jumping the Ubuntu ship, and moving over to a CentOS 8 PMS.
Is there any advantages to CentOS 7 over 8? over Ubuntu…
There was a time a few months ago, where my photo collections caused my PMS to just CRASH, with no explanation of how to fix it, I was left with isolating the exact directory that failed, and just NOT put it on my PMS… which is a bummer… because I would love to have my photo library on my PMS…
I use the intel NUC as a dedicated PMS hardware, connected to my NAS also on my network as the backend file server. The NUC and the OS (ubuntu 18.04 currently) log into and mount via NFS. Only the OS is on the NUC, and the content is on the NAS. Seamed like it worked, great, until it didn’t… hence the reason for maybe just going with CentOS…
I was the guy with the photo library crashing my PLEX server. Ultimately you suggested reformatting my OS partition.
I read your demo here…
However, I’m not sure how partitioning my OS system, would ultimately cure the issue.
My system is a Intel NUC, running Ubuntu 19, and ALL of my content is on a NAS drive inside the same network that it’s mapped to.
Currently, my system is up and running great, without my photo collections, and it’s a really bummer because the Plex photo lib and auto upload features are really great!
Not sure what I was going to do, perhaps try a different OS like CentOS perhaps. I’ve got another web server that I’m going to set up that requires CentOS, so I thought it might be a good time to dive in on this OS.
So… I guess I’ll try to set up another NUC, and maybe try another OS.
How many photos are you indexing? The quantity of photos in a single library, added all at once, tends to be the main issue.
A point of order concerning Ubuntu 19. As soon as Ubuntu 20 comes out, support for Ubuntu 19 will end. All odd-numbered years of Ubuntu lose support as soon as the even-numbered years are released. This is how they do it and we are forced to follow suit.
Partitioning the system to free your data (/home) from the OS (/) makes changing or upgrading OS a trivial matter. In this case, it won’t matter because no data is local. Partitioning to have /home, and then moving PMS’ Library to a directory there will make preservation of the PMS installation much easier between OS versions or changes.
Sorry for the long period between replies. My job takes me out for weeks at a time. And this Plex thing is just a side gig.
All content on my Plex is via a NAS server via Shared folders. I have ALL photos organized in year directories. So, perhaps at most 500-900 in one year, per year?
My initial issue was PLEX crashing on my wifes photo Library… No reason known yet??
I currently use NFS to hook the Plex server into the NAS, but perhaps I can move to SMB???
Or, just try CentOS, I’ve been tinkering around with it, and it’s pretty nice and solid.
Ubuntu 16 / 18 , Debian 8, or Centos 7 are all fine.
NFS is fine too. It’s native to Linux so why use SMB when not needed?
I would like to suggest, since you have everything already nicely clustered by year,
is to add them by Year directory (incremental library section build up). There is no limit to how many directories can be added to a library section so let’s make it easy on the host.
