<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000}</style></head><body>I just set up a slave backend, and I use NFS to mount the myth shares from the master backend. This means that the slave uses the NFS share for it's ringbuffer.<br><br>Is this a good thing to do? Is there a way around this without throwing massive hard drives into the slave?<br><br>The reason I'm asking is my frontend keeps getting errors:<br><br><span style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;">2008-01-24 10:46:47.474 NVP: prebuffering pause</span><br style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;"><span style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;">2008-01-24 10:46:47.661 RingBuf(/mnt/raid5/myth/tv/2981_20080124103351.mpg): Waited 1.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;"><span style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;">2008-01-24 10:46:47.661 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;"><span style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;">2008-01-24 10:46:48.711 RingBuf(/mnt/raid5/myth/tv/2981_20080124103351.mpg): Waited 2.0 seconds for data to become available...</span><br style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;"><span style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;">2008-01-24 10:46:48.711 Checking to see if there's a new livetv program to switch to..</span><br style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;"><span style="font-family: Courier,Courier New,mono;">2008-01-24 10:46:48.971 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This happens only when displaying livetv from the slave backend.<br><br>On another note, is there a way I can make a frontend prefer a specific backend?<br><br>Gerald<br><br></span></body></html>