[mythtv-users] Odd: Storage Group is showing two different drives as the same MythTV drive

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Jul 26 12:48:01 UTC 2007


Mike Perkins wrote:
> Isn't the answer to this as simple as placing a small "label" type file 
> on each of the volumes? If each of these either has a unique 
> storage-related name or the same name e.g. "label.myth" or something, 
> but uniquely generated contents, then the back end could easily 
> determine whether or not the volumes were unique or not.
> 
> If the back end comes to another share and finds a label already on it, 
> then it knows it's already seen it and moves on.
> 
Doh. If there are two storages on the same partition my scheme won't 
work. To make that work properly, would require human assistance at the 
setup stage to identify the volume used.

Mike Perkins



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