Which way of accessing a source via NFS is better?

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Which way of accessing a source via NFS is better? - doug - 2nd Jan, 2013 09:19 AM

Hi,
Is there any advantage (e.g., one accesses content faster, is less processor intensive, etc.) of using NFS by either:

Automounting a share at startup in fstab and adding the source by selecting /root/path/to/nfs-foo in xbmc, or
adding the source via the NFS menu item in xbmc?

Or are they the same?

Doug

RE: Which way of accessing a source via NFS is better? - CurlyMo - 2nd Jan, 2013 10:05 AM

They do the same, however mounting them with fstab makes the sources XBMC independent, which is easier for some people to manage.

RE: Which way of accessing a source via NFS is better? - doug - 2nd Jan, 2013 10:29 AM

Thanks. I'll be managing my content via a windows desktop, so I guess I'll go with #2.

RE: Which way of accessing a source via NFS is better? - brantje - 2nd Jan, 2013 08:57 PM

Option 3:
Shared sources

RE: Which way of accessing a source via NFS is better? - doug - 3rd Jan, 2013 10:42 AM

(2nd Jan, 2013 08:57 PM)brantje Wrote: Option 3:
Shared sources

Look's interesting!

So to connect to my Windows HTPC sources, I'd do what is listed on github . com/xbianonpi/wiki/wiki/Shared-sources (links not working for me) on my Pi and change
"<to>SMB://192.168.1.x/xbmc/sources.xml</to>" to "<to>nfs://myWindowsIPAddress/c/Users.../xbmc/sources.xml</to>"