Mike, Thanks for the idea. I like the idea of being able to record locally for 15 hours safely and then just using the new NFS storage for playback only, but I think it won't work from a practical standpoint:
1) MythTV runs in conjunction with MySQL which is managing the data files. If I simply move the data files to some other location then MySQL won't know where they are for playback. 2) As far as I know MythTV expects all the data file to be in a single location for playback. I've never heard of anyone having multiple disks for playback, but if they could then your idea would possibly work. I like the idea though and will do some research to see if there's a practical solution. Possibly some sort of logical disk drive? That's a bit beyond my meager skill set. Thanks, Mark On 8/2/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > Here is my suggestion to get the best of both worlds (note my limited > knowledge of mythtv). Setup a shell script to copy all your video files from > the myth capture directory over to the nfs share and delete the files thus > clearing your local space and also allowing you to capture 135 hours. You > could even cron it so you don't have to think about it. Pardon me if this is > a gross misunderstanding of mythtv but if its not it should work like a > charm. > > -Mike > > > On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/2/05, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the rsize > > > > option is being used? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > > > > > > Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like > > > ethereal? This should tell you which protocol is being used. > > > > > > > Hi Matt, > > OK, ethereal was pretty easy to use, and it does indeed show that > > I'm using TCP for packat transfer. I see a proto=NFS packet followed > > by a number of TCP packets with sizes of 8K bytes so this seems to > > verify that both options I was looking for ar indeed working. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Unfortunately this means I'm no closer to the root cause of my real > > problem which is mythbackend shutting down without warning. It > > happened again just a few minutes ago. This all started happening > > after I brought this NFS mount on-line as storage for the mythbackend > > server. I suppose I'll have to go back to the reduced storage option > > (15 hours instead of 120 hours) and make sure that it's really this > > disk/PC/network connection. > > > > Thanks again for your help. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > ________________________________ > > Michael E. Crute > Software Developer > SoftGroup Development Corporation > > "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
