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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 (2 children)

I’m looking for the truth, not just a blanket “yes”.

I’ve really become into the Plex music app over the iOS music app; it does so much more (especially with the sonic analysis)
Not transcoding x265; solid x265 playback without transcoding.
Will have to look at Jellystat and see how it compares to Tautulli
2FA is pretty important, though I know that’s offset by the fact that you can authenticate locally.

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

Nothing like a sonic analysis that I know of jellyfin.
Never had issues with x265 other than for devices that don't have the computation power to decompress. Direct play to my TV with 4K streams have always been excellent.
It could heavily limit apps, but you could use authentik/authelia to enable access to jellyfin, so external access requires MFA. Internally apps could access the local IP normally without authentik. But bouncing off authentik first would likely prevent most (all?) Apps from working externally - you'd likely only have the webui externally. Can't think of a solid solution until Jellyfin natively supports 2FA

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

Looked at the setup directions; is it not where as simple/easy as Plex’s 2FA.

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

I dia just find this: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-jellyfin-authentik-duo-2fa-solution-tutorial

Which claims app compatible 2FA via authentik

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

Yeah, while it is technically 2FA it’s not nearly as easy as it is setting it up for Plex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Agreed.