[mythtv-users] Mytharchive can't move/save .iso file to NFS mounted directory

Daniel A. Segel mythtv at archer-segel.com
Fri May 19 00:37:39 UTC 2006


Paul Harrison wrote:
> Daniel A. Segel wrote:
>   
>> I set it up to write the iso file to a directory mounted via NFS. When 
>> it's done creating it and tries to move it, I get this:
>>
>> Finished creating ISO image
>> Moving ISO image to: /home/media/iso/DVDs/temp_dvd.iso
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/local/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 
>> 2753, in ?
>>     processJob(job)
>>   File "/usr/local/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 
>> 2616, in processJob
>>     os.rename(os.path.join(getTempPath(), 'mythburn.iso'), savefilename)
>> OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The /home/media directory is mounted via NFS from a different server. df 
>> -h output:
>>
>> tallulah:/home/media  513G  477G   36G  94% /home/media
>>
>> If I have it write the file locally it works fine, and afterwards I can 
>> manually copy or move it to that directory successfully as well.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>   
>>     
> Should be fixed now. I've only tried it by copying the iso image to a 
> different hard drive within the same machine but it should also work 
> across nfs. Not sure what sort of performance you will get copying the 
> large iso images across a network though?
>
>   
Thank you. It works, and it takes about 8 minutes to move an ~3.6GB iso 
file over my 100Mbit network. I don't have a DVD burner on my Myth box 
so I have to copy it over sometime. Having it done in the script saves 
me one more step.


Daniel



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