[mythtv-users] World of pain migrating to "Storage Groups"

[Raymond Wagner]

On 7/9/2010 19:29, Kingsley Turner wrote:
> As far as I can understand, Storage Groups is to allow *Recordings* to 
> get placed on different drives.  Any suggestions as to why all this 
> static-file stuff is now in a world of pain ?

Storage Groups are a way to provide distributed file access to all 
things MythTV.  You define the storage group on the backend, and restart 
that backend.  Now, anything that speaks myth protocol can access that 
file anywhere on the network, without having to set up NFS or any other 
network file share.

In 0.23, MythVideo now supports hashing of videos, meaning if you move 
them around, MythVideo will find them and update their location in the 
database, rather than create a new entry for which you need to download 
metadata.  If you are switching to storage groups, you must stop using 
local file access in the frontend.  Also, the file scanner in MythWeb is 
broken, and should not be used.