[mythtvnz] Recordings not happening without a reboot

[Adam Bennetts]

On 19/06/2014 11:39 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:40:01 +1200, you wrote:
>> Not sure if this still happens in the latest version (I'm still on
>> 0.25.something), but another possibility is if a drive a storage group
>> uses was accessible when the backend starts but becomes inaccessible
>> some time after. Doesn't have to be an active storage group either. I
>> added an 'old' storage group to that accessed a share on a NAS. If the
>> NAS was initially visible to Myth but disappears (e.g. I turned it
>> off) recordings after the drive disappeared failed even though the
>> 'old' storage group is never recorded directly to. I can't recall
>> whether the failure was logged.
> That is not a problem if you make sure you have one level of directory
> on the drive for the storage group.  If you have a partition mounted
> as /mnt/rec3 say, and then have the storage group write directly to
> /mnt/rec3, then there is no way for mythbackend to know if the drive
> is there or if it will end up storing to the root partition because
> the drive is unmounted.  But if you make a recordings directory on the
> drive and set the storage group to point to that, ie to
> /mnt/rec3/recordings, then mythbackend will know that the drive is
> unmounted if it can not see the recordings directory and will not
> write to that storage group.
>
>
Thanks, I may not have done that, I'll have to try it again. This 
storage group was never written to (no recording schedules used it) but 
I assume the backend tests it anyway.