[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music & Videos Questions

[Michael Watson]

On 14/04/2012 1:46 PM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 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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Its the database that is not being updated, due to MythFrontend not 
exiting properly.  Nothing to do with the filesystem of the frontend..