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

[Tony Lill]

Nigel Pearson <nigel at ind.tansu.com.au> writes:

> 	I am just wondering if all this is really necessary.
> It is not too hard to do this sort of thing via NFS/Samba
> and symlinks and a cron job or two (e.g. every 10 minutes
> if the recordings partition is more than X% full, move the
> oldest recordings to another partition/network-mount and
> replace with a symlink), and it means we are not adding
> extra complexity needlessly.

I'm doing that now.

Two big problem. Autoexpire doesn't understand symlinks, so if you
moove expirable programs off the main disk, they get deleted for no
reason.

Transcode doesn't understand symlinks, so if you transcode something
that's moved, you get an extra copy, and fill up your main recording
space.

Also copying stuff can bog down the net/disks. It's 10Mb to copy vs
700k for an MPEG2 stream. You probable don't want to do it while
you're recording or playing back.