[mythtv] Possible Future Option?

Mark Musone mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:20:20 -0500


for storing files, I've seen it's a lot easier simply doing linear
appending via software raid0, or using
other volume management. For linear appending, the overhead is basically
nill, and it greatly decreases any
complexity. you don't really want to worry about what hard drives have
what percent free, and what files
you need to shuffle around...etc..

for what it's worth, that's what I'm doing now, and it helps a ton. I
used to have 8 drives, each separate, and
it was really a pain to manage them.

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]
On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:02 PM
To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv] Possible Future Option?


I don't know how hard this would be to do, but I was thinking of a nice
little option (don't know if it's been talked about before).  I think it
would be cool to be able to define multiple recording volumes.
Something
like:

/mnt/store0
/mnt/store1
/mnt/store2
/mnt/store3

Each /mnt/store# could be a different drive.  Then, in the SETTINGS
option within MythTV, you could pick which path (drive) you want to use.
It might also be cool to list stats by each path (ie: % used, % free,
etc.). 
Then, when you record a program, the MySQL database could have a field
for the path being used for that recording (/mnt/store0, /mnt/store1,
etc.). 
This would allow you to add drives ad hoc.  You could add storage as you
need it.


jeremy


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