jim dods wrote:
> I am using DD-WRT on my router for the NAS. It looks like DD-WRT does not support NFS server, so unfortunately unable to use NFS in this case.
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> I formatted it so that full drive is ext4, and can mount drive and rw to it, but it will not record to it. Any other ideas? Is TVH not able to record to a ext4 formatted drive?
TVH is quite capable of recording to an ext4 formatted drive, however this is not what you're trying to do. You're trying to record to a network share which is a different kettle of fish. The fileserver has to deal with the filesystems attached to it [in this case NTFS & ext4], the remote system [your TVH server] sees a pseudo filesystem via the network [e.g. cifs or nfs].
Your statement 'ext4 (supposed to be faster for Linux)' is true for directly attached devices, ext4 has much lower CPU overhead than NTFS, but this only impacts the device directly mounting the filesystem, it doesn't impact device mounting the filesystem as a network share.
Generally nfs will also provide better performance than cifs, but if you don't have the option of nfs, and cifs is working for you, I would stick with that, and as the choice of filesystem on the file server will only impact that device, and sharing ext4 via cifs is likely to be a poor fit, again I'd say if NTFS is working, I don't see any great advantage in changing.
If you were mounting a hard drive directly to the Pi, definitely use ext4 over NTFS, but via a network share, your pi is isolated from the remote filesystem overhead.