[mythtv] Storage Groups - OK to move files between directories in same group ?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/17/2008 05:49 AM, Albert Graham wrote:
> I'm using MythTV v0.21, I love the idea of storage groups, in my case I 
> have 10x1TB drives, two are raid 0, and 8 are raid5,
>
> Now this machine is rather noisy with all 10 drives hammering away, so I 
> setup my default Recording storage group as follows:-
>
> /disk1 (raid0 2TB)
> /disk2 (raid5 7TB)
>
> At night time, I, unmount the /disk2 array, which forces MythTV to 
> record on to /disk1 (even if it writes to /disk2 as that mount point is 
> on disk1.
>
> My question is, is it OK to move the new nightly recordings from /disk1 
> to /disk2 (once mounted), both /disk1 and /disk2 are in the same storage 
> group ?
>
> I've tried this and I pretty sure it works OK, except now and again I 
> get program listings like "_NO_TITLE_" and when I try play it says file 
> not found ?, no "I"nfo is available for the file - except length in 
> minutes.
>
> Assuming I cannot do this because the path is hardcoded in the database, 
> can anyone post a short sql cmd that corrects the path from old to new 
> so I can build a script that updates the database as it moves the files.

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Thanks,
Mike