[mythtv-users] Automatic deletion on drive fillup doesn't work

[John Schweitzer]

On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Chad wrote:

> On 9/8/05, Matt Goebel <matt at goebelnet.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> I have 650GB on my master backend shared out the sole Myth slave
>>>>> frontend/backend
>>>>> via NFS on which I keep all my recorded shows.  A few days ago  
>>>>> this filled
>>>>> up.
>>>>> Instead of automaticly deleting older or lower priority shows,  
>>>>> as I
>>>>> thought Mythtv
>>>>> was supposed to do, it just continued on recording shows of 0  
>>>>> bytes.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Just a hunch: although you specify the remaining disk space in
>>> gigabytes, some filesystems reserve a certain percentage of the disk
>>> for root's exclusive use so that logging and daemons would  
>>> continue to
>>> work if a run-away user process tried to fill the filesystem.   
>>> From a
>>> user's perspective, "df" would show lots of remaining space  
>>> (typically
>>> 5% for ext2/ext3) but writing data to files would fail if it  
>>> resulted
>>> in an allocation request.  If that percentage is larger than the  
>>> fixed
>>> size you specified then the auto-expire routine would never be
>>> triggered.
>>>
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>>

I forgot to add - I do not see this behaviour on my machines, so it  
may very well be something else, now that I think a little more about  
it. :)

--
John


>>
>> This is Reiserfs v3 /w LVM on a hardware RAID 5 array.  When I  
>> checked with df the
>> whole filesystem was actually used up.  So it really IS full and  
>> no reserve...  The
>> only thing this volume is used for is Myth storage, TV shows,  
>> video, music, etc.
>> Programs are on another volume.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>
> Do you have the "allow backend override" enabled?  This is supposed to
> take care of this, at least that is how I understand it.
>
> Cool
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