[mythtv-users] Storage directory file system: too easy to unmount?

[Dave Ulrick]

On 2/13/20 7:10 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> 
> This is working as designed.  It is very useful to be able to unmount
> drives that might be used by MythTV but are currently not.  I do it
> all the time, but I have seven recording drives, so having one or
> three unavailable does not cause problems.  

I see. My MythTV backend is a mid-tower PC and doesn't have a lot of 
internal hard drive slots so I've stuck with one recording drive.

I do have a Synology NAS that supports NFS and iSCSI. It's on the same 
switch as my backend server; iperf3 shows maximum GigE throughput: 940 
Mbits/sec. What do you think of using such a device for MythTV 
recordings? Would NFS be OK or would iSCSI be preferred?

> If you have only one
> recording drive, then you may want to write a monitoring script that
> will let you know if it is unavailable.

Thanks for the sample script!

Dave