[mythtv-users] Master backend with no capture card

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Feb 4 02:55:34 UTC 2010


On 02/03/2010 09:31 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> OK, thanks for the tip.  I fixed that, and everything seems all right,
> so hopefully I'll avoid any future issues.  I still have the
> double-counting issue with disk space, though; any tips for that, or
> is it just a limitation of 0.21-fixes?  Here's what Mythweb shows:
>
> Disk Usage:
>     * MythTV Drive #1:
>         * Directory: mockingbird:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings
>         * Total Space: 237,936 MB
>         * Space Used: 221,215 MB
>         * Space Free: 16,720 MB
>     * MythTV Drive #2:
>         * Directory: magpie:/var/lib/mythtv/recordings
>         * Total Space: 237,936 MB
>         * Space Used: 221,215 MB
>         * Space Free: 16,720 MB
>     * Total Disk Space:
>         * Total Space: 475,873 MB
>         * Space Used: 442,431 MB
>         * Space Free: 33,441 MB
>
> Mockingbird has the physical disk, and magpie mounts it via NFS. 
> Before storage groups this worked fine without doing anything special;
> however, now I seem to have to configure a storage group on each
> machine for things to work, and that results in the space being
> counted twice.

Oh, that one.  That's due to your kernel's use of large blocksizes for NFS.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/393002

So, you either need to set up NFS to use 32kB blocksize or (better)
upgrade to 0.21-fixes r21368 or higher (at which point, you might as
well just go to 0.22-fixes :).

Mike


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