[mythtv-users] strange NFS problem

[Chris Pinkham]

> > > > submitted part of the code that allowed the frontend to play the
> > > > file directly from NFS if available rather than streaming from the
> > > > backend.

> Is there a way I can check my files to make sure?  I just sniffed the
> network while playing from a remote frontend, and I could defenitely see
> the traffic hit the backend server, and then go to the frontend.
> 
> Perhaps it doesn't realize that it can play the file directly?  The NFS
> partition is mounted in the same location on both servers (/media), so
> the paths should be the same?
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> 
> Dan

I just looked at the code and it checks RecordFilePrefix in the settings
table, but that appears to be a backend-only setting.  I have a
RecordFilePrefix entry for one of my frontend-only systems though so I'm
not sure how that got there.  Can you check your settings table and see
if your remote frontend has a RecordFilePrefix entry.  If not, add
one and see if that makes it start reading directly from the NFS server.
It might be a bug that it doesn't work if you've never had a backend on
the machine your frontend is on.  I don't remember setting up a backend on
my frontend-only machine though so I don't know why that entry exists.

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Chris