[mythtv-users] Myth + Pogoplug/Samba

[Jos Hoekstra]

H Z schreef op 5-9-2009 1:57:
> Hi - Hoping for some help. I've got a mythtv backend/frontend that is 
> setup to save to a Pogoplug Linux server that itself has two attached 
> USB drives.
> 
> Pogoplug provides a binary on linux that allows the pogoplug-connected 
> drives to be mounted (pogoplugfs is based on fuse I believe) remotely -  
> so I have the two drives on the pogoplug mounted on the mythtv linux box 
> as /Pogoplug/Mediadrive1 and /Pogoplug/Mediadrive2.
> 
> Setup this way the mythtv box can record and save OTA HDTV shows no 
> problem. However when I play back the recordings on the mythtv machine 
> it glitches and breaks up - not terribly but it's annoying.
> 
> So rather than use pogoplugfs to mount the drives on the pogoplug I've 
> also installed Samba on the pogoplug and mounted the drives that way. 
> Doing that playback works great! But, for some reason the mythtv backend 
> machine doesn't see the drivespace and thinks there's only 150MB free, 
> so the minute mythtv starts to record a show it auto-expires every other 
> show already recorded - not very useable.
> 
> So - Is there a way that I can use pogoplugfs for the backend but tell 
> the frontend to go to a different path to find its shows and mount that 
> path using Samba?
> 
> Or - does anyone know what might be causing Samba and the remote OS to 
> be deciding that there is only 150MB of space when actually there is 2TB?
> 
> Thanks.

As far as I know the pogoplug runs a linux-version because of it's 
architecture. Isn't good old NFS an option?
I never used NFS before I split up my backed up from it's frontend, but 
turned out te be pretty easy to setup on Ubuntu.

Regards,

Jos Hoekstra