Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

[Michael Crute]

Well if you are a perl or python kinda guy you could write a more 
sophisticated script to copy the files and update the database so that 
everything is transparent as far as myth is concerned. 

-Mike

On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Mike,
> Thanks for the idea. I like the idea of being able to record
> locally for 15 hours safely and then just using the new NFS storage
> for playback only, but I think it won't work from a practical
> standpoint:
>
> 1) MythTV runs in conjunction with MySQL which is managing the data
> files. If I simply move the data files to some other location then
> MySQL won't know where they are for playback.
>
> 2) As far as I know MythTV expects all the data file to be in a single
> location for playback. I've never heard of anyone having multiple
> disks for playback, but if they could then your idea would possibly
> work.
>
> I like the idea though and will do some research to see if there's
> a practical solution. Possibly some sort of logical disk drive? That's
> a bit beyond my meager skill set.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> On 8/2/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > Here is my suggestion to get the best of both worlds (note my limited
> > knowledge of mythtv). Setup a shell script to copy all your video files
> from
> > the myth capture directory over to the nfs share and delete the files
> thus
> > clearing your local space and also allowing you to capture 135 hours.
> You
> > could even cron it so you don't have to think about it. Pardon me if
> this is
> > a gross misunderstanding of mythtv but if its not it should work like a
> > charm.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
> > On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 8/2/05, Matthew Cline <matthew.cline@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > On 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > but how do I know it's being used? And how do I know that the
> rsize
> > > > > option is being used?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > > Could you watch the traffic between the two using something like
> > > > ethereal? This should tell you which protocol is being used.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Matt,
> > > OK, ethereal was pretty easy to use, and it does indeed show that
> > > I'm using TCP for packat transfer. I see a proto=NFS packet followed
> > > by a number of TCP packets with sizes of 8K bytes so this seems to
> > > verify that both options I was looking for ar indeed working.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Unfortunately this means I'm no closer to the root cause of my real
> > > problem which is mythbackend shutting down without warning. It
> > > happened again just a few minutes ago. This all started happening
> > > after I brought this NFS mount on-line as storage for the mythbackend
> > > server. I suppose I'll have to go back to the reduced storage option
> > > (15 hours instead of 120 hours) and make sure that it's really this
> > > disk/PC/network connection.
> > >
> > > Thanks again for your help.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mark
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> > SoftGroup Development Corporation
> >
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