[mythtv-users] When the disk is full... what happens?

Anthony Vito anthony.vito at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 10:46:40 EST 2005


> Is it?  I thought it was on until my disk filled, and I found that
> it was set to 0 as the threshold, which somewhat counterintuitively
> disables autoexpire.   Maybe I set it that way and forgot about it, but
> I had the same problem this guy had.

That's a tough problem. The system really can't act like you expect it
to. The system can't run out of disk space first... then delete
stuff... and _not_ miss recording data. The time to delete a file is
non-zero, even if you have a solid state disk. Unless you setup a huge
RAM cache to hold the info while the delete occurs... somehow you need
a little cushion to make everything go smoothly ;)


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Anthony Vito
anthony.vito at gmail.com


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