[mythtv-users] Mytharchive can't move/save .iso file to NFS mounted directory

[Daniel A. Segel]

Stephen Atkins wrote:
>
>
> On 5/17/06, *Daniel A. Segel* <mythtv at archer-segel.com 
> <mailto:mythtv at archer-segel.com>> wrote:
>
>     I set it up to write the iso file to a directory mounted via NFS. When
>     it's done creating it and tries to move it, I get this:
>
>     Finished creating ISO image
>     Moving ISO image to: /home/media/iso/DVDs/temp_dvd.iso
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "/usr/local/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line
>     2753, in ?
>         processJob(job)
>       File "/usr/local/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line
>     2616, in processJob
>         os.rename(os.path.join(getTempPath(), 'mythburn.iso'),
>     savefilename)
>     OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     The /home/media directory is mounted via NFS from a different
>     server. df
>     -h output:
>
>     tallulah:/home/media  513G  477G   36G  94% /home/media
>
>     If I have it write the file locally it works fine, and afterwards
>     I can
>     manually copy or move it to that directory successfully as well.
>
>
>
> I've had problems moveing files around with both NFS and Samba when 
> they are bigger than 2Gigs.  In fact I've never been able to and I 
> haven't found a fix any where for this.  Then again its been over a 
> year since I looked.
>
Don't know about samba, but the 2GB limit with NFS went away with v3, 
which is included in the kernel these days. I can copy and move larger 
files from the shell without any problems.

Daniel