[mythtv-users] Userfreindly filenames of .nuv files?

Jules Bean jules at jellybean.co.uk
Wed Nov 23 13:55:10 EST 2005


Michael T. Dean wrote:
>Jules is basically right.  The problem is not that the remote filesystem 
> doesn't follow symlinks, it's that NFS allows the symlink to be read as 
> a symlink.  Then, the local kernel attempts to follow the symlink and 
> that file location doesn't exist on your local machine.  If you make 
> sure that the path to the recordings directory is identical on the local 
> filesystem, it will work.  For example, if you have your recordings in 
> "/myth/recordings" on the backend, either mount "/myth" at "/myth" or 
> mount the recordings directory at "/myth/recordings" (depending on how 
> much of the myth tree you want exported).
> 

...or if mythrename.pl generated relative links, which is often the 
Right Thing to do (but not quite always!).

J


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