[mythtv-users] Storage groups: How to set 'SGweightLocalStarting' to 0?

[Michael T. Dean]

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On 10/08/2008 01:24 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan Larson wrote:
>>>>>> So do I need to put in 3 entries—one for each BE, or 6—one for each storage
>>>>>> dir?
>>>>> Probably one for each backend.  Settings are not storage group specific but
>>>>> host specific.
>>>> I guess the problem for me is that the post you linked to addresses
>>>> 'SGweightPerDir' not 'SGweightLocalStarting', and I'm just trying to figure
>>>> out which parts translate from one to the other…
>>>  The principle is the same.  Most settings in the DB (if you browse
>>> through it) have a hostname component because they are per host settings,
>>> not global.
>> So I tried entering the settings but got the same result as before—remote
>> storage with more free space is still ignored. Here's the entries I made in
>> settings:
> Try running the backend with extra verbosity turned on for VB_FILE and/or
> VB_SCHEDULE and you should see a bunch of stuff printed out about the
> weighting used.

And note that you'll need to restart Myth (master backend, meaning all 
other stuff, too) when hand-editing the database.

Still, though, you should fix the settings so it's one with NULL hostname.

Mike