[mythtv] [PATCH]Shouldn't MythVideo store filenames relative to VideoStartupDir?

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Wed Mar 16 23:24:48 UTC 2005


Neale Swinnerton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been having a problem with MythVideo and the way it stores 
> filenames in the Database.
>
> I have 1 machine that acts as a nfs server and another frontend that 
> mounts the Video directory from that nfs server. On the nfs server I 
> occasionally run a frontend that accesses the disk 'direct' (and via a 
> different path)

And there's your problem.  Mount your shares in the same location and 
you're fine.

> The existing code seems to have some support for multiple 
> VideoStartupDirs, separated by ':', I've removed this, since it would 
> then mean each frontend would need to search for the appropriate 
> VideoStartupDir, which seemed odd to me. 

So, you remove a feature that was just added in order to avoid mounting 
your drives consistently?


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