[mythtv-users] How do I -COMPLETELY- disable the expirer?

[Kevin Kuphal]

f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:26:14 -0500
>     > From: Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net>
>
>     > f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > > I just discovered (in 18) that I don't have any recordings older than
>     > > March 25.
>
> [Long explanation of how Myth apparently thought my filesystem was
> zero-size for an instant omitted.]
>
>     Don't set any recordings to expire.  Myth only expires what you allow it 
>     to expire so if you want to continue to manage things manually, just 
>     don't allow anything to expire and hope you never forget to check the space.
>
> The problem here is that Myth is apparently completely willing to
> believe absurd values.  Perhaps this is better in 19.  But for the
> instant my filesystem was reporting a total size (I believe!) of
> zero bytes (certainly MythWeb was saying -something- like that,
> if "B" is a number), the expirer tried to kill every recording
> on the box.
>   
I'm fairly certain that I also ran into this problem in 0.18 and it was 
fixed in 0.19

Kevin