[mythtv-users] Myth doesn't record onto my NAS

[Michael Watson]

On 9/11/2013 1:00 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/08/2013 08:54 AM, Michael Watson wrote:
>> On 8/11/2013 5:28 PM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
>>> A few days ago I realized myth was not using the second directory in 
>>> my Default storage group for storing recordings.  I'm not sure it 
>>> ever was.  It can play recordings from there without issue.  I can 
>>> move a recording from the first to the second and it will still play 
>>> back.  But it only seems to ever create new recordings in the first 
>>> directory.  I came to know this because the drive containing the 
>>> first directory filled up, even though myth was reporting lots of 
>>> free space available.
>>>
>>> The first directory is on a drive internal to the backend. The 
>>> second is on a network-connected NAS, cifs mounted on the backend.  
>>> The directory has a+rwx permissions.  Any suggestions what to look 
>>> at next?
>>>
>>> -J
>>
>> Ensure that the user running the MythTV Backend has write access to 
>> the mounted file system.
>
> FWIW, if MythTV had tried to write to the file system and was unable, 
> Jerry would have ended up with non-existent files for some of his 
> recordings.  It doesn't sound like that's the case (I would have 
> expected such a complaint to be prominent in the question). So, MythTV 
> hasn't chosen to write to the file system, because of the 
> currently-specified Storage Group Disk Scheduler.
>
Unless secondary drive has less free space, or currently being used for 
recording (clearly not the case), why would the scheduler ignore this 
drive on any of the scheduler options?