[mythtv-users] Shared filesystem that looks different to different machines

[Jeff Siddall]

On 06/05/2014 10:09 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Jeff,
>
> Thursday, June 5, 2014, 3:52:37 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 06/05/2014 09:23 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> Nice thought!
>>>
>>> You create a master music directory, you create a NFS share for every
>>> client on that same volume and you create a loop that goes through
>>> this list of directories to keep them synced by hardlink once a day.
>>> This with exclusion of the podcast subdirectory. Be sure to run the
>>> sync at a time the NFS shares are not used. Maybe you should unexport
>>> those shares at the start of the sync and then reexport them after.
>
>> Yes, but since these are just files I don't see why an unexport/reexport
>> is required.  The clients will see any file changes just like any other
>> file changes shared over NFS.
>
> Also it's probably not just files, since music normally is organised
> in a directory structure. (Artist, album, etc.)

Agreed, but directories are basically just special files anyway.  It 
should work the same.

Jeff