[mythtv-users] Two new physical drives appear as subdirectories of the same drive: why?

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On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 at 21:28, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:

> MythTV's ability to identify distinct drives uses pretty,
> simple-minded heuristics.  One of those heuristics is to look at disk
> space available and used.  Since your drives have the same disk space
> values, MythTV thinks they are the same drive.  Once you put some
> files on them and the disk space values diverge, MythTV will see them
> as separate.
>

Thanks for this explanation but I find it mindboggling... Why does Myth
need "heuristics" when perfectly reliable first-hand information is
available from the computer and OS about which drive is which?
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