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

[Mark Perkins]

> On 9 Jun 2015, at 3:22 am, "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hoi Tom,
> 
> Monday, June 8, 2015, 7:43:03 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>>> If I had a storage group with a disk that I wanted to be able to read
>>> from but not write to, can I tell MythTV to do that?
> 
>> Just create a new Storage Group, add that disk to it, then never
>> configure recordings to use that Storage Group. Recordings will use
>> the Default group by default. Call your new group something like "Read
>> only" to remind yourself not to choose it for recordings. Anything on
>> that disk will still be available for playback.
> 
>> Tom
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> If you give the mythtv user only rx rights mythtv-setup will complain.
> It does a test write to all SG directories. I think, if you do as
> above you can safely ignore the complaint and say "you know what you're
> doing". I do however not know if myth stores that it kan not write.
> 
> Tot mails,
>  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
> 
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
> 
> De lerende Mens
> 
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I don't believe it stores that info. I've had network mounts unavailable while running mythtv-setup (and therefore get that unwriteable message) and once the mounts returned everything just went back to normal without further intervention.