Well the problem here is that this is dependent upon the assumption that
you are mounting your recordings in the same place on all your backends
and frontends.  This is fine if you only have one backend and one
frontend, but really makes for a troublesome situation otherwise.

Let me present two situations that automating this breaks entirely:

(1)
Machine A, master backend mounted at /var/lib/mythtv/recordings locally
Machine B, slave backend mounted at /var/lib/mythtv/recordings locally

Neither machine A or machine B clearly have each others recordings
mounted.

Now you add Machine C, a frontend.  Well so what do you do about
mounting these recordings?  You can clearly only mount one machine's
recordings.

(2)
Machine X, master backend mounted at /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/X
Machine Y, slave backend mounted at /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/Y
Machine Z, frontend

Now on Machine Z, you can go and make the directories
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/X and /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/Y, and then
mount them there no problem.  The issue then is what do you put into the
settings database?  You can't just say /var/lib/mythtv/recordings,
because it's expecting to find the recordings at wherever you define the
RecordFilePrefix to be.

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The only possible solution that I forsee would involve a patch upstream that 
would change the behavior of the RecordFilePrefix, as well as how these 
recordings are then accessed.

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