[mythtv-users] Shared filesystem that looks different to different machines

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jeff,

Thursday, June 5, 2014, 3:52:37 PM, you wrote:

> On 06/05/2014 09:23 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Nice thought!
>>
>> You create a master music directory, you create a NFS share for every
>> client on that same volume and you create a loop that goes through
>> this list of directories to keep them synced by hardlink once a day.
>> This with exclusion of the podcast subdirectory. Be sure to run the
>> sync at a time the NFS shares are not used. Maybe you should unexport
>> those shares at the start of the sync and then reexport them after.

> Yes, but since these are just files I don't see why an unexport/reexport
> is required.  The clients will see any file changes just like any other
> file changes shared over NFS.

Possibly not. It would be an extra precaution against the export going
stale, by forcing a fresh export. Just a refresh of the export
probably would have the same effect

> Also, I don't see a specific need to create an NFS share for every 
> client.  Just share a top level directory once and then set the "music"
> directory of each client to an appropriate subdirectory inside the NFS
> share -- analogous to home directories.

The export has to be read-write for the podcast subdirectory. By
creating separate exports, which is quite simple to do, you prevent
read-write access by multiple clients, which is as I said before not a
strong point for NFS.

> Jeff
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