[mythtv-users] Control number of recording streams per Storage Group filesystem?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/11/2007 12:49 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> As a 0.20-fixes user I look forward to using Storage Groups and its
> native support for multiple recording directories. (In the meanwhile I
> use Lincoln Dale's patch at
> <URL:http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1744>.)
>
> However, prior experience has shown me that a certain RAID NAS I'd
> want to use can't handle more than one simultaneous HD recording
> stream. I currently have three HD-capable recording-stream sources,
> and in normal usage I know that the Storage Groups functionality would
> balance things by allocate one stream to each of my three filesystems
> (the NAS I'm asking about plus the two other RAID arrays my MythTV
> system currently uses). However, I'm going to be installing a
> HDHomeRun in the next week or so, resulting in four or five HD-capable
> stream sources. That means it's possible two or three streams could be
> sent to the NAS at once, so I'd want to put a a hard limit of no more
> than one stream to that (and only that) filesystem.
>
> None of the various weightings at
> <URL:http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Storage_Groups_Weighting>
> appears sufficient to do what I'd want to do. Is that correct? If so,
> any near-term hopes of adding such functionality?

Most likely to be added by someone who needs that functionality...  :)  
Chris Pinkham designed the Storage Groups code to allow for the addition 
of new balancing mechanisms.

Mike