[mythtv-users] Master/Slave Backend confusion

[Phil Bridges]

On Dec 26, 2007 2:34 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Cool - I can stick with my current NFS mounts for those.  Thanks, everybody!