[mythtv-users] Storage group 'Types' (from bug 12680)

[thigger]

I wasn't sure whether to go for here or -dev but hopefully enough
interested people will see it here!

Do you feel that storage groups should have 'types' eg Videos in the
Videos group, LiveTV in the LiveTV group etc - or do you feel that
storage groups should be more loosely defined - with users and the
software free to put files in any group?

It surprised me to find that the present behaviour is actually the
latter - MythTV will go searching through any and all storage groups
to find a file. This has potentially unwanted effects - eg keeping
hard discs 'awake', and in my case waking up a remote fileserver. The
main benefit is that you can stick a file literally anywhere, and so
long as one of your storage groups points to it, MythTV will sniff out
the file.

See https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12680 for some info.

I assume most people are unlikely to be too concerned about this and
the present behaviour will remain. For what it's worth, I've globally
disabled searching in inappropriate storage groups in my copy of
0.27-fixes and it's running fine so far. Just thought it was worth
getting some other opinions; as to me it seems like strange behaviour.

Tom