Comment by heavyset_go
Comment by heavyset_go a day ago
It's a local media library manager in the same vein as media servers that came before it that were intended to run on desktops and serve up content to consoles and whatever on your LAN back when that was the thing to do.
My point is to treat it like software from that lineage and you won't have a problem, trying to treat it like something it's not, like a distributed web app, will lead to issues.
It feels like we’re saying similar things. We both agree that its architecture makes it difficult to run with high availability, although I’ll point out that the issues documented in the article apply to single nodes and even on a single node it has pretty specific hardware requirements. I think we just disagree about whether “you have to hold it very carefully and it works just fine” is a good thing or not.