[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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