[mythtv-users] Myth autoexpiring brand new shows

[Dean Harding]

Enigma wrote:
> remote disk).  Digging deeper into Storage Groups, I discovered that the
> code does not try to balance disk space, the purpose of Storage Groups
> is to manage disk I/O.  When the feature was first implemented there was
> a lot of talk about how it would make LVM and RAIDs obsolete [even the
> Myth documentation says this] for Myth systems but that is not at all
> what it is for -- it appears that if you want your recordings to be
> evenly spread across your disks (and not immediately deleted) you still
> need to concatenate your disks using traditional methods.  I sure wish I
> knew this before storage groups effectively turned my 1.5 TB system into
> a 200 GB system and deleted all my new recordings.

Well, if all the disks were local I think it would work like you wanted
it to. You might be able to set the SGweightLocalStarting setting to 0
so that local and remote storage groups have the same starting weight,
but I say that not having looked at the code, and only from reading what
I found on http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Storage_Groups_Weighting

Dean.