[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend NFS

[Bill Bradley]

On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:13 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:45, Bill Bradley wrote:
> > Just a quick question......I installed the ATrpms version of the frontend
> > yesterday and it appears that myth no longer wants to stream recorded
> > programs from backend but instead is looking for the .nuv files in
> > my /var/lib/mythtv parition.  I just mounted up the backend partition via
>
> NFS
>
> > and all was good.
> >
> > I have installed myth a bunch of times and have never had this happen
>
> before.
>
> > Is this the new default behavior for the frontend?
>
> This behavior was broken for quite a while and has recently been restored.
> The frontend will attempt to play directly from a file directly from the
> filesystem if it exists.  I'm not sure how it checks for this, but from
> your post it seems that it might simply be checking for existence of the
> directory rather than the actual file.  If so, you could simply remove the
> /var/lib/mythtv directory if you really don't want to maintain the NFS
> mount.
>
> -JAC
>
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That sounds reasonable, except the file system didn't exist on my frontend.  I 
had to create it.  The frontend log file clued me in with "Cannot find file 
-- /var/lib/mythtv/"".nuv .  I made the nfs mount and it worked.  I imagine 
an nfs mount is less overhead on the cpu than streaming?