[mythtv-users] Adding storage groups

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/29/2010 02:33 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 01/28/2010 09:05 PM, Brent Bolin wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there a way to add storage groups without doing it from the backend
>>> myth-setup ?
>>>
>>> Would like to be able to do this without bringing the system down.
>>>       
>> No.  You need to run mythtv-setup.
>>     
> However, I don't think it's always necessary to restart the backend
> after changing storage groups. I don't remember if I restarted when I
> changed my recording storage groups, but I'm very nearly certain that
> I didn't when I setup the video storage groups. At one point I wanted
> to rename one of the video storage groups and I just modified the path
> directly in the database and it recognized the new path right away. So
> I'd just try making the change in mythtv-setup without restarting the
> backend and see if it works.
>   

Just make sure you read through all the code that uses the data from the
storage group table so that you understand all of the data
requirements/boundary conditions/etc. before modifying the data.

Just because it looks like it works somewhere doesn't mean that you
didn't break things...

And, really, why can't you shut down mythbackend for 2 seconds?

Mike