[mythtv-users] 1 FE and 2 separate BE-FE

[Mike McMullin]

On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 11:14 -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/23/2011 09:00, rawgarlic at gmail.com wrote:
> > Because in this arrangement we have 2 complete backend-frontend
> > systems X and Y in rooms 1 and 2.
> > We don't need to setup a complete 3rd system.
> > We just need to be able to watch any available content from X or Y at
> > any given time, in room 3.
> 
> Why not make X a master backend with frontend, and Y a slave backend 
> with frontend?  Is there any reason you need to have two independent 
> systems, rather than tying them together so they share tuners and 
> recordings?

  Showing my ignorance of how complex mythtv is here, can the slave
backend not have it's own tuners, access the master database, and master
storage directory structure?