[mythtv-users] MythVideo and Flash Drives

[David Brieck Jr.]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:47 PM, jr <jraymyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We have promoted our app to QA and so, while I am waiting for defects
> to start rolling in,  I am wandering through the mythtv user archives
> in a kind of stream of consciousness search pattern.  I came across a
> few threads on MythVideo and removable media which spoke to CDs, DVD's
> and USB Hard Drives.  It made me wonder if there was an existing
> method where any given user can insert one or more usb flash drives
> and have MythVideo automagically know about them, and thereby play its
> contents.  I guess I could just add /media to the directory path?  But
> then how do I set it up so that they can yank the drive without
> unmounting it?
>
> just wondering
>

I'm not sure how you would accomplish this, but if you can make USB
devices mount as read only wouldn't you not need to worry about
unplugging the drive since no changes to the file system could have
been made?