[mythtv-users] Master/Slave Backend confusion

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Dec 26, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Phil Bridges wrote:

> On Dec 26, 2007 2:27 PM, Carl Fongheiser <carlfongheiser at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Dec 26, 2007 1:24 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is the storage directory independent for each backend, or is there  
>>> one
>>> directory where all recordings are stored?  If it's one directory,  
>>> it
>>> may make more sense for me to look at the SVN 0.21 version to get  
>>> the
>>> storage groups.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's currently specified per-backend.  You can make them all the  
>> same using
>> NFS or another network filesystem, but you don't have to.
>>
>> Carl Fongheiser
>>
>>
>
> Great - thanks for the help.  In a master/slave backend setup (where
> recordings are stored on both machines), would a frontend-only
> computer need to mount each of the drives?  Or would the files stream
> through each backend?

Recordings will stream, but frontend plugins won't like MythMusic,  
MythVideo and MythGallery.