[mythtv-users] OT: NFS craziness

[Mike Perkins]

mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
> 
> You have to add each filesystem you are exporting into /etc/exports
> 
> /mnt/this/hdc/video
> /mnt/this/hdd/video
> etc
> 
> You also have to mount each filesystem on the remote machine.  You can't 
> just mount a higher level like /mnt/this.
> 
I can and I do. The reason you have to do it that way, is that if the drive 
fails to spin up, or suffers some other failure, and doesn't mount, you don't 
end up writing video files into your root device. You *must* write your video 
files at a lower level than you NFS mount at.

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Mike Perkins