[mythtv-users] Mounting NFS shares on FE for consistent directory structure

Michael Heironimus mkh01 at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 27 01:25:48 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:57:48AM +1100, glenhawk at optusnet.com.au
wrote:
> The configuration before that I was still using an always on server
> and had mounted the nfs shares using fstab. The problem with this is
> that during boot up I would get internal errors related to mounting
> the shares that would slow the boot time considerably (but once it
> finally booted mythvideo, mythmusic, etc. all found their shared files
> without a problem).

Use autofs. Nothing will try to mount until something accesses an autofs
mount, and then when it's not being used it will umount automatically.

> Just had a thought... how does MythTV access the TV storage
> directories? You can watch recorded TV no problems after waking up a
> BE with a FE; can you set up the video and music shares in the same
> way?

Recordings will be streamed if the frontend can't see the recordings
directory, but nothing else works that way.

-- 
Michael Heironimus


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