[mythtv-users] Storage group question

[Phil Bridges]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> * On Thu Nov 11, 2010 at 10:36:43PM -0500, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> OK - I have my tuner set up on my slave backend.  Recordings made on
>> that tuner record fine on the slave backend.  Unfortunately, though,
>> when I have a recording from a tuner on my master backend, it can't
>> record onto the slave backend.
>
> I think you're misunderstanding the concept of Storage Groups a little.
> Storage Groups do not allow one backend to record across the network
> to another backend's hard disks.  If you want to do this, you'll still
> have to use NFS.  Several of us have discussed letting one backend
> write across the network to another backends drives via MythTV's internal
> protocol, but we haven't implemented the functionality.  Most of the
> parts are there because of other features, it would just need some glue.
>
>> All of these slave directories are set at 777.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> If you want the master to record to the slave's directories, the master will
> need to be able to mount those over NFS.  If you cross-mount your directories
> on the opposite servers, the storage scheduling code will look at all 5 drives
> and schedule recordings across them based on the storage scheduling setting
> you have chosen.
>

Yeah - that's the weird thing.  I didn't expect it to try to record to
the slave backend, but it was trying anyway.

I'm not sure what was going, but a restart seems to have solved it.