[mythtv-users] Shared Firewire Drive??

[Marco Nelissen]

>OK, this may be a strange request but here is my situation. I have 4
>mythtv systems, 2 backends and two frontends. Currently all of them
>connect to a NFS file server with 300G to read and write shows. Here is
>what I would like to do. I have an external firewire enclosure with an
>Oxford 911 chipset (Allows concurrent connections) that I would like to
>connect to both backend server and have them write directly to the 300G
>via firewire. I can the NFS Share the firewire file system to the
>frontends over the network.
>
>Does this seem feasible? I don't see an issue where both backend systems
>writing to the same file at the same time due to the way myth handles the
>master slave setup.

I very much doubt than any of the filesystems you were thinking of using
have any provision for having two separate computers write to the same
disk at the same time while keeping the filesystem consistent. You would
end up with a corrupt filesystem in no time at all.