[mythtv-users] Deleting Recordings does not release Disk Space

[Donavan Stanley]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:12:47 -0700, Rob Walker <rob at ladle.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2004 02:56 pm, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:48:36 -0600, Curtis Stanford
> >
> > <curtis at stanfordcomputing.com> wrote:
> > > What's the point of having the backend if you have to mount the
> > > recordings with NFS?
> >
> > Streaming video to the frontends is one SMALL part of what the backend
> > does.  Using NFS allows you to create a directory stucture something
> > like this:
> >
> > /myth
> >   /myth/recordings
> >   /myth/music
> >   /myth/videos
> >   /myth/artwork
> >   /myth/games
> >
> > Then mount that tree on all remote frontends as /myth.  Then evey
> > frontend has access to the same files, and in the same place.
> 
> I would have assumed (incorrectly?) that any application which was designed to
> be with a frontend and a backend and whatnot would be designed to do that
> whole "export the files to the clients" thing through its' own client-server
> architecture.

And it does for recordings, just not all the extra stuff.  Using NFS
simplifies things a lot.