[mythtv-users] NAS Hibernation

malcolm malcolm.torrent at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 17:07:00 UTC 2010


On 27/11/10 08:42, dargllun wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a NAS in the basement which puts the disks in hibernate mode 
> after 30m to save on energy and prolong disk lifetime.
>
> I was wondering if mythtv (video, music, gallery) supports NAS 
> storages in such a way that the NAS directories are only accessed the 
> instant I actually want to watch or listen to material. I once added a 
> NAS NFS mount to the gallery path (like 
> /var/lib/mythtv/photos:/mynas/photos) and found, that when starting 
> the frontend, mythgalery would instantly enter all configured photo 
> directories, thus waking up the NAS needlessly. I haven't tried with 
> videos or music.
>
> What are my options?
>
> Thanks!
> greg
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I use autofs to automatically mount my NFS video storage directories as 
required, as far as i can tell the default settings are tolerant to the 
NAS spinning down. There is a small delay (<10s) during which i can hear 
the NAS spin up and serve the files.




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