[mythtv-users] Mythtv .19 live watching
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Mon Jul 17 00:17:59 UTC 2006
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:37:41PM -0500, Alex Brekken wrote:
> But you're not "running out" of storage. That's the beauty of it - it's self
> cleaning. You never run out, it's not a limited resource. You have a hard
> drive that's devoted to Myth, right? (or at least a partition) What does it
> matter if it's always full? It's supposed to be full.
First of all, I don't run Myth on a dedicated machine, nor did I
buy a drive or create a partition specifically for Myth. I use
pooled storage for several other daemons plus the Myth back-end.
Second, both 0.18 and 0.19 users have complained again and again
about the auto-expire not working and how it causes their partition
to hit 100% and kill the machine. I therefore don't trust
auto-expire and manually manage the recorded programs.
Third (as I mentioned in a previous email), the way the system
selects which shows to expire is not satisfactory. If I leave my
shows expire-enabled then it will delete the wrong ones (my POV)
because it looks at their age and schedule status but not the
priority I assigned to them. Because of this, most of my search
rules record with auto-expire disabled and I end up managing the
storage myself anyway. If (when) Myth ever gets to the point where
it can be trusted to delete shows both when required and in the
order I want then I will turn on auto-expire.
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