[mythtv-users] MythTV Secondary FE/BE Setup Advice

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 8:20 AM, James Crow wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:04 -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Running a slave backend without any tuners is not a supported
>> configuration. It might work, it might set your cat on fire.
>> If you want to use your new machine for storage, NFS export paths  
>> from
>> that machine, mount them on your master backend and use the paths as
>> if they were local. That is a supported configuration.
>>
>>
>> -Brad
>>
> Thanks Brad. I seem to remember a discussion on this list about  
> running
> a master BE without a tuner. AFAIR the concensus was that a master BE
> without a tuner is unsupported, but I do not recall any mention of a
> slave without a tuner. Maybe that should be added to the docs.  
> Something
> like "If you plan/want/dream of having a slave BE it must have at  
> least
> one tuner in it."
>
> It seems that NFS is my only option.

I don't think it's limited to master backend. Every reference I could  
find just says "backend".
That aside, if you don't have a tuner, there is no reason to run a  
backend. If you want to rip DVD's, run mtd. If you want to flag  
commercials or transcode, run mythjobqueue. NFS gets you through any  
file access-related issues.

-Brad