[mythtv-users] removable storage questions

[James Miller]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, John wrote:

> preview generation hangs the UI for a few seconds. What I do is use
> autofs and have a video folder inside the mount as the storage group
> so if the drive is offline mythtv will not try to write to the drive
> because the video folder will not exist. I guess autofs would have not
> let myth get to the mount anyways but this is a carryover for the 2
> years I used storage groups before I found autofs.

Thanks for your input, John. That sounds like an interesting approach. I 
don't have much experience with autofs, though. Can you offer a bit more 
detail on how you implemented this scheme? And/or maybe provide some links 
to relevant info on doing this?

James