[mythtv-users] Multi-gigabyte shared r/w partitions
Richard Thomas
rich at dicksonlife.com
Thu Jan 22 18:13:16 UTC 2009
Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>
> I've considered the NAS route even if in a more indirect manner.
> I thought of putting a VM on the windows box that runs a stripped down
> version of linux with samba and have windows r/w to the share and
> consequently to the hard drive, but what a way to go. I thought about
> the ntfs-3g route as well, but seeing since linux will be the dominant
> use of the box, I don't want to format the drive to NTFS. I'm not
> sure, but I don't think the ntfs drivers would take well to reading an
> hd stream while write two other HD streams and an SD stream
> simultaneously.
>
I think in such a situation, I'd put the Windows machine in a VM on the
Linux box. Though since my Myth box is a dedicated DVR, I have a
separate system for Windows type stuff anyway. I can understand that
that's not always practical for every situation though.
Another option would be to split the drive in some proportion to be dual
NTFS/ext3 and mount each readonly in the non-native system. Though I
understand the Linux NTFS drvier is supposed to be OK in NTFS write now
and I've even used it (carefully) on a couple of occasions. The ext3
drivers for windows have worked OK for me too but have seemed a bit clunky.
Rich
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