[mythtv-users] Myth + Pogoplug/Samba

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Jos Hoekstra<joshoekstra at gmx.net> wrote:
> H Z schreef op 5-9-2009 1:57:
>>
>> Hi - Hoping for some help. I've got a mythtv backend/frontend that is
>> setup to save to a Pogoplug Linux server that itself has two attached USB
>> drives.
>>
>> Pogoplug provides a binary on linux that allows the pogoplug-connected
>> drives to be mounted (pogoplugfs is based on fuse I believe) remotely -  so
>> I have the two drives on the pogoplug mounted on the mythtv linux box as
>> /Pogoplug/Mediadrive1 and /Pogoplug/Mediadrive2.
>>
>> Setup this way the mythtv box can record and save OTA HDTV shows no
>> problem. However when I play back the recordings on the mythtv machine it
>> glitches and breaks up - not terribly but it's annoying.
>>
>> So rather than use pogoplugfs to mount the drives on the pogoplug I've
>> also installed Samba on the pogoplug and mounted the drives that way. Doing
>> that playback works great! But, for some reason the mythtv backend machine
>> doesn't see the drivespace and thinks there's only 150MB free, so the minute
>> mythtv starts to record a show it auto-expires every other show already
>> recorded - not very useable.
>>
>> So - Is there a way that I can use pogoplugfs for the backend but tell the
>> frontend to go to a different path to find its shows and mount that path
>> using Samba?
>>
>> Or - does anyone know what might be causing Samba and the remote OS to be
>> deciding that there is only 150MB of space when actually there is 2TB?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> As far as I know the pogoplug runs a linux-version because of it's
> architecture. Isn't good old NFS an option?
> I never used NFS before I split up my backed up from it's frontend, but
> turned out te be pretty easy to setup on Ubuntu.

Not having any idea what a pogoplug was I had to google.
http://www.openpogo.com tells you how to hack it.

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Pogoplug-NAS-Device-Review/?page=6

is a review and has some stats on performance, which seems to be
firmware dependant.