[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music & Videos Questions
Paul Gardiner
lists at glidos.net
Sat Apr 14 03:46:48 UTC 2012
Scott & Nicole Harris <snharris99 at live.com> wrote:
>This is a standalone frontend, which I (and more importantly the wife)
>views
>as nothing more than an appliance. You turn appliances off when you're
>not
>using them, preferably with the remote that came with it...no different
>than
>a TV. You don't need to be "special" to turn the TV off, you simply
>press
>the power button. I'd think most people would expect to be able to
>"press
>the power button" (exit and reboot) from the appliance's on screen menu
>and
>have it do what ever it is it's supposed to do, properly.
This is one of the nice things about using minimyth. It runs on a readonly file system, with unionfs and tmpfs layered on top. Every night, I just turn it off at the power switch, without needing to shutdown, knowing that the underlying file system will be unaltered ready for a clean boot the next day.
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