[mythtv-users] 0.22 The .iso / Storage groups problem

Marius Schrecker marius at schrecker.org
Fri Oct 30 15:10:12 UTC 2009







>On Fri Oct 30 15:17 , Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:>   The general concensus seemed to be that it was simpler at the FE level if most of the videos were handled by storage groups, which have several advantages over the traditional approach.
>
>The main advantage is you don't have to setup the frontends, but that
>is only an advantage if *all* of your videos are in storage groups. If
>you do the hybrid setup it actually becomes a disadvantage because now
>you are doing the local setup and the storage group setup. The other
>main advantage of storage groups is being able to distribute your
>video library storage across your network, but if you have all your
>videos on one system then that isn't an advantage. So in general it
>would be easier and simpler to just go without storage groups rather
>than doing the hybrid approach.
>

Hmm,

 Thanks for the input. I certainly see the point.

Will check to see if my hybrd setup works this evening before going back to the drawing-board.

Cheers!

Marius


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