[mythtv] Re: New idea for storing recordings to disks

[Kevin Kuphal]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:02:04PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 29 June 2005 11:31, Robert Tsai wrote:
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>>>Is your point that Myth should just not bother recording at all if it
>>>thinks it might run out of space?
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>>Actually, my *original* original point was simply that having multiple 
>>storage locations would *not* really make it much more difficult (just 
>>a little bit) for Myth to determine whether there is enough space to 
>>start a recording or where to record it.  Perhaps I didn't do a good 
>>job of tying my original statements in to that conclusion... anyway, 
>>we've drifted a bit off-topic... 
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>But will the users understand that their recording died because one
>particular storage location filled up, even though the others still had
>space available?
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Any user that would configure multiple locations would probably also be 
well aware of the space concerns on ecah of them.  Also, I would expect 
that shortly after any such recording location patch was comitted that 
the feature to allow recording on available partitions vs. auto-expire 
would be included.

Kevin