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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] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you not just use a reverse proxy for your jeyllfin server and add multiple servers to the same client?

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

jellyfin addresses files locally. i dont know how you could stitch together remote machines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm surprised the client doesn't support switching between servers. When I had jellyfin running I exposed it through traefik to allow external playback. Figure it would make sense that you could just show multiple servers in the UI. Add several reverse proxied addresses and boom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Then I have multiple jellyfin servers in the app.... That's not what I want, I want a single mount where all the media of all nodes is accessible

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

You definitely can. Idk why the commentor above you thinks its local only?

I have two severs I swap between exactly like you describe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thats what I thought.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

yeah, that might work for what op is tryin to do, maybe, assuming jellyfin fits his client needs