[mythtv-users] Myth records until drive is full (auto-expire is off)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/29/2008 08:23 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> Does anyone else feel this is the wrong way to do things? As an
> _intelligent_ DVR, I think that if auto-expire is disabled for all
> rules/recordings and the space available for recordings fills up or
> hits its configured minimum space limit:
>
> i) the scheduler gets disabled
>
> ii) the upcoming recordings screen (and backend log) shows a warning
> stating this, and that no further recordings can be made until some
> space is freed up (and recommend using auto-expire to avoid this
> happening in the future). Playing back an existing warning could also
> display a message to this effect via mythtvosd.
>
> iii) future LiveTV sessions exits before starting playback with a
> similar warning message
>
> iv) mythbackend catches the "out of disk space" error/exception,
> aborts any in-progress recordings, and syslog escapes mostly unharmed.
>
> As I stated in an earlier thread, I have no experience with a
> commercial DVR, but when faced with a similar disk full scenario, do
> they:
>
> i) block any future recordings and display warning
> ii) automatically start deleting old recordings to make room for new ones
>
> Many users treat their MythTV systems as appliances. Having them
> potentially break* due to "unfriendly" behaviour is something that I'd
> argue should be removed as far as possible. I'd rather miss some new
> recordings and be told why, than have to manually intervene and rescue
> a system that has run out of diskspace.

Sure, patches to http://svn.mythtv.org/ , please (which is my slightly 
more (or less?) polite way of saying, "I /never/ have this problem so I 
will /never/ write the code to handle that problem, but I won't complain 
if someone who actually cares does write it").

Mike