I've been in the process of collapsing my Myth infrastructure back to a single BE that contains all recordings and tuners. The reason for this has been that many of the MythTV add-ons that I want to use don't support recordings in multiple locations. One such add-on is MythicalLibrarian. More info is available at <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MythicalLibrarian">http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=MythicalLibrarian</a> but the gist is, ML takes shows that are recorded, figures out what show and episode they are, moves the recording to a hierarchy based on that information (to a ../Episodes folder), and leaves a symlink behind for Myth to use.<br>
<br>I've run into an issue, however... My BE's recordings live on a samba/cifs share served up by a Windows 2008 server. Apparently CIFS mounts don't support symlinks, so while ML has been sucessful at moving the recording to ../Episodes,it can't create a symlink at the root of the recordings directory, so that show disappears from Myth. <br>
<br>I think I've come up with a solution, but I was wondering if it will cause issues. My old recording directory is /var/lib/mythtv/recordings. It's a local 50GB partition running EXT3, I believe. I have found using <a href="http://mythlink.pl">mythlink.pl</a> that I can create symlinks in that folder that will point to the destination CIFS share of /var/lib/mythtv/recordings3 (Don't ask where recordings2 went, it's a long story). So, I could repoint my storage group to recordings, have ML move the files to recordings3/Episodes, and leave symlinks behind. My question is, what kind of weird side effects would I run into? I've already told the BE to follow symbolic links when deleting files, so that shouldn't be an issue. I guess my biggest concern would be with the reported space available to myth. My /recordings3 folder is a 2TB mount, while /recordings is only 50GB. I have Myth set to leave 1GB free at all times. How will Myth calculate its available storage? Is it smart enough to see the true destination's space used? Or will it always think there is 50GB free, or some other weird scenario that I haven't thought of yet?<br>
<br>As always, thanks in advance.<br>