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[Auggie]

Well, a hearty and warm WELCOME and HOWDY NEIGHBOR!

I'm sure you will enjoy our year-round (mostly) sunny, warm weather that San Diego has to offer! =)

[internetfriend]

Periodic forum posts is not only a good decision from a support perspective but also a good business perspective. A very large selling point of UNRAID is the support users receive both officially and unofficially. I've recommended UNRAID to a few friends who have ended up using something else because they think it's a "dead" software because of the frequency of updates/communication dropping the past few months. Its obviously not true, but some people are definitely assuming it is.
Even a twitter account that's updated weekly could be a good idea if you're socially inclined...?

[storm123]

Thanks for the update.
Do you anticipate increasing the prices when the new company is operational?
Waiting for pay day to buy a pro licence...

[toby9999]

Tom - my burning question is: "are you saying that you are taking unraid to the next level and hiring some staff and going more commercial?" (that would be awesome news, and definitely the start of something HUGE for all of us).

Edit: ahh, I missed your original posting about this ... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=17705.0

[jimwhite]

Be prepared for "May Grey" and "June Gloom" 

[seanant]

Nice. 350 days of sunshine in sunny San Diego. Welcome to SOCAL.

[redbeard]

350 days? That's an upgrade from ~330 FoCo gets. If you have any servers left for sale (which it seems you haven't for a while) I might just have to drive by and pick one up. If you need a helping hand I'm somewhat free in the afternoons...

[marcusone]

I'd rather you promise to give us weekly updates, as I think most of us understand, v5 final could be a moving target once "we" (the users) get our hands on it

Will Do

Great to hear... and as a gentle reminder, you have a couple days before a weekly update is "due"

[piotrasd]

any chance to get 5.0 final build with DVB - TV card support ? for tvheadend
or maybe you can separetly create build like normal + DVB support

This is last thing wich is missed in unraid (and i think not only for me)

Will be great if we find it in final 5.0

[bbqninja]

any chance to get 5.0 final build with DVB - TV card support ? for tvheadend
or maybe you can separetly create build like normal + DVB support

This is last thing wich is missed in unraid (and i think not only for me)

Will be great if we find it in final 5.0

I think most people reckon that would be a REALLY bad idea.  Unraid should be a fully optimized storage server.

Either:
-Get a super-cheap seperate box (even one of those pogo-plugs would work for a tv recording server) and mount unraid with NFS
or, if you MUST have only one physical box
-run VMWare ESX

[tyrindor]

Great to hear... and as a gentle reminder, you have a couple days before a weekly update is "due"

Have we gotten any updates since this? Almost the end of Feb. Thought he said he was going to give us weekly updates. 

[olympia]

any chance to get 5.0 final build with DVB - TV card support ? for tvheadend
or maybe you can separetly create build like normal + DVB support

This is last thing wich is missed in unraid (and i think not only for me)

Will be great if we find it in final 5.0

I think most people reckon that would be a REALLY bad idea.  Unraid should be a fully optimized storage server.

Either:
-Get a super-cheap seperate box (even one of those pogo-plugs would work for a tv recording server) and mount unraid with NFS
or, if you MUST have only one physical box
-run VMWare ESX

Well, 'REALLY bad idea' is too strong to say here, I would say.
Including those modules wouldn't harm so much.

On the other hand there are more important priorities to focus on.

[WeeboTech]

any chance to get 5.0 final build with DVB - TV card support ? for tvheadend
or maybe you can separetly create build like normal + DVB support

This is last thing wich is missed in unraid (and i think not only for me)

Will be great if we find it in final 5.0

I think most people reckon that would be a REALLY bad idea.  Unraid should be a fully optimized storage server.

Either:
-Get a super-cheap seperate box (even one of those pogo-plugs would work for a tv recording server) and mount unraid with NFS
or, if you MUST have only one physical box
-run VMWare ESX

Well, 'REALLY bad idea' is too strong to say here, I would say.
Including those modules wouldn't harm so much.

On the other hand there are more important priorities to focus on.

naaa. It's a really REALLY bad idea.   
Seriously though, Having the vendor work on this dilutes the core nature of unRAID.
A person could learn how to compile unRAID.
In addition there are many talented people here who can make a custom distro if someone wants it that bad.

[bbqninja]

any chance to get 5.0 final build with DVB - TV card support ? for tvheadend
or maybe you can separetly create build like normal + DVB support

This is last thing wich is missed in unraid (and i think not only for me)

Will be great if we find it in final 5.0

I think most people reckon that would be a REALLY bad idea.  Unraid should be a fully optimized storage server.

Either:
-Get a super-cheap seperate box (even one of those pogo-plugs would work for a tv recording server) and mount unraid with NFS
or, if you MUST have only one physical box
-run VMWare ESX

Well, 'REALLY bad idea' is too strong to say here, I would say.
Including those modules wouldn't harm so much.

On the other hand there are more important priorities to focus on.

My thoughts:  (and I haven't looked into the unraid kernel config much)
-if the unraid kernel is compiled staticly (without module support enabled) then I don't want it in the kernel potentially pushing it out of cache pages
-if the unraid kernel is compiled with modules enabled, then it's trivially easy to load a slackware VM with the same kernel revision, build the modules in question, then copy them to the USB stick and load them from the go script

Either way it's apparent he has limited hours to work on unraid and thus should not spread features thin.
If limetech was a 30 person team, then sure, have a specialized version for everything you can think of!

[Joe L.]

any chance to get 5.0 final build with DVB - TV card support ? for tvheadend
or maybe you can separetly create build like normal + DVB support

This is last thing wich is missed in unraid (and i think not only for me)

Will be great if we find it in final 5.0

I think most people reckon that would be a REALLY bad idea.  Unraid should be a fully optimized storage server.

Either:
-Get a super-cheap seperate box (even one of those pogo-plugs would work for a tv recording server) and mount unraid with NFS
or, if you MUST have only one physical box
-run VMWare ESX

Well, 'REALLY bad idea' is too strong to say here, I would say.
Including those modules wouldn't harm so much.

On the other hand there are more important priorities to focus on.

My thoughts:  (and I haven't looked into the unraid kernel config much)
-if the unraid kernel is compiled staticly (without module support enabled) then I don't want it in the kernel potentially pushing it out of cache pages
-if the unraid kernel is compiled with modules enabled, then it's trivially easy to load a slackware VM with the same kernel revision, build the modules in question, then copy them to the USB stick and load them from the go script

Either way it's apparent he has limited hours to work on unraid and thus should not spread features thin.
If limetech was a 30 person team, then sure, have a specialized version for everything you can think of!

unRAID uses modules.  It is not statically compiled, although there are some modules compiled into the kernel for various file systems.  In fact, the "md" driver itself is a loadable module.
 
You are correct, just need to set up a dev environment with the same Slackware release, use the .config as supplied by lime-technology as a starting point, and build whatever module you like.

Joe L.