[mythtv-users] a read-only disk/directory in a storage group?

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 10/06/2010 09:24 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>> On 10/05/2010 08:30 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>> Let's say I have two disks/directories in a storage group and I want to
>>> prevent one of them (because it's stupid XFS and corrupting on write --
>>> the last time I will ever use XFS) from being written to further yet I
>>> want to leave it in the storage group for reading from.
>>>
>>> Can I instruct myth to use it only for reading from?
>> why not use that bash script someone wrote? (looking...)
>> MythMediaMonitor!
>>
>> Take the XFS directory out of the storage directory list, then make a
>> new partition (Ext3 or whatever) and put that in your storage directory
>> list.  Run MythMediaMonitor over the XFS directory, and it will create
>> simlinks in the ext3 directory back to your XFS directory, not touching
>> XFS at all.
>>
>> So far MythMediaMonitor doesn't touch the underlying files when myth
>> deletes the symlinks.
>>
>> The second advantage of this is that any NEW recorded stuff will go in
>> your ext3 directory, again leaving XFS alone.
>>
>> ooooohh, sounds like a plan!!
>>
>> ;)
>> --
>
> I second Ian's solution...

I third this approach.

>   however I am not sure that a MythMediaMonitor is
> really necessary... you could just as easily do it with a single command
> from the command line.  (
> http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1225/symlink-all-files-from-a-base-directory-to-a-target-directory
> )
>
> Just create a new folder, point your Storage Group at it, and symlink all of
> the data from your old folder into it.   Might be some permissions issues to
> resolve, but it should work.  Not sure it will handle delete's right though.

Agreed.

Mike