[mythtv-users] How is personal setup stored?

[Jared Luxenberg]

NachrichtI don't see any reason why the disks on a MythTV frontend or
backend box couldn't be allowed to spin down (using some kind of power
saving feature of the drive).  I think you can set them to spin down after a
certain amount of idle time with hdparm.

- Jared
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Bathelt, Manfred
  Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:27 PM
  To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
  Subject: [mythtv-users] How is personal setup stored?


  Hello,

  I use MythTV for some month now and my family is _very_ pleased about it.
  After vaporizing my PC´s power supply last weekend and now getting some
new hardware, I think about installing MythTV + Linux on a CDROM or USB
memory, to allow spindown of my disks while idling (and save
energy/heat/noise).

  My question is:
  where is the personal setup of MythTV stored? I mean which movie to
record, whether to record it once or every day,...
  Is it stored within mySQL or using some config-files?

  I do not care about the EPG stuff stored within mySQL, as this could be
rebuilt in ramdisk after each reboot, but user settings should persist
reboots.
  If mySQL is used for all of this data, I can probably forget this vision
for now, as I do not want to try to run mySQL on CDROM/USB flash memory, and
probably will not be able to force mysql not to touch the hard disks over
longer periods of time...

  Has anybody ever tried to install MythTV+Linux on a read only system which
spinned down hard discs?

  Manfred
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