[mythtv-users] Separate frontend vs backend question..

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting Jayson Garrell <kyi at kyi.sytes.net>:

> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 15:15, James L. Paul wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Can the NFS run on @#)$ (Windows)...  I could then use my existing file
> > > server.
> > 
> > Why bother using NFS if you don't have a convenient NFS fileserver? If you
> 
> > have a windows fileserver that presumably uses SMB, just use that. A Linux
> 
> > backend machine can connect to windows fileshares perfectly fine using
> Samba.
> 
> I don't have a windows pc so... but wouldn't that cause the recording
> names to be truncated? unless it was ntfs, I would assume.
Filenames - no.

File lengths - Yes, unless you're running ntfs.

I've also heard (although I can't confirm) that no matter what the underlying
filesystem, SMB has a 2GB filesize limit, just like older versions of nfs did. 
(Unless this has also changed for SMB.)