[mythtv-users] Please explain

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Wed Dec 14 17:30:13 EST 2005


On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:18, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:01:27PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > I don't see how that's any different than just autoexpiring things,
> > though. As long as the backend is running and the user has not
> > individually disabled autoexpire for every recorded program, the disk
> > will never be completely full.
>
> If I correctly apprehend the issue, I see two potential problems, of
> differing import:
>
> 1)  If the disk is full of live recordings which will conviently expire
> to get out of the way of more important stuff, then you'll never know
> how much free space you really have.  Myth could, I suppose, do the
> math internally for it's own display, but being able to use something
> as lightweight as df(1) has it's advantages.  (cron scripts, for
> example).
>
> 2) depending on how far in advance the programs are expired, and what
> OS/filesystem is in play, the delete itself may take a notable amount
> of processor horsepower, increasing the minimum requirements of the
> system.

Both of which are absolutely no different than normal operation of Myth, which 
will "fill up" your disk anyway.

Isaac


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