On Tuesday 01 November 2005 9:44, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 08:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Yes, it is possible. I partitioned my 250GB frontend only machine as > > 10GB for Gentoo and 240GB in a separate partition. I then made the > > large partition available through NFS and mounted it on the backend > > as > > the location to store recordings. > > > > While recording uses network bandwidth, the nice thing is that this > > frontend is the main family system in the family room and there is > > no > > network traffic when watching playback. (On that frontend) > > Is that really true? I thought the frontend would contact the backend > requesting the recording. The backend then streams the recording to > the > frontend. In this case it would pull it over NFS then send it to the > frontend. > > If I understand mythtv correctly the frontend does not really know > where > the recordings are stored. It asks the backend system to supply that > as > needed.
The frontend must contact the backend or the DB to find out the filename & location of a recording. However, once the absolute pathname is determined, the frontend will look for it on the local filesystem. If it's found (even if it's an NFS mount), then the frontend will start playback directly from the filesystem. If it's not found, then it must request that the backend stream it. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
