[mythtv-users] removable storage questions

[John Drescher]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Miller <gajs-f0el at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

If you do not already use autofs its probably better not use it.

Using storage groups and normal mounting worked fine for me for from
November of 2006 to November of 2008.. I switched to autofs mainly
because I was using it for other parts of the system.

John