[mythtv-users] World of pain migrating to "Storage Groups"

Kingsley Turner krt at krt.com.au
Sat Jul 10 20:45:27 UTC 2010


On 10/07/10 09:42, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 7/9/2010 19:29, Kingsley Turner wrote:
>> As far as I can understand, Storage Groups is to allow *Recordings* 
>> to get placed on different drives.  Any suggestions as to why all 
>> this static-file stuff is now in a world of pain ?
>
> In 0.23, MythVideo now supports hashing of videos, meaning if you move 
> them around, MythVideo will find them and update their location in the 
> database, rather than create a new entry for which you need to 
> download metadata.  If you are switching to storage groups, you must 
> stop using local file access in the frontend.  Also, the file scanner 
> in MythWeb is broken, and should not be used.

So I just blank-out all these paths in the configuration, and Myth will 
simply use the Storage groups table data ?

thanks,
-kt

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