[mythtv-users] "background" balancing disks in a storage group

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/21/2010 07:36 PM, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Wed Apr 21, 2010 at 06:07:07PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>    
>> Given that one of the nice features of storage groups is to spread disk
>> i/o load among spindles, I wonder if there is anything (i.e.
>> transparently) balancing space amongst disks in a storage group to keep
>> the disks evenly available in space.
>>      
> Nothing exists like this currently.  We have talked about the idea
> previously, in fact I have a patch which adds code to the JobQueue
> to do the actual file migration.  There are a bunch of other things
> on my TODO list that are higher priority that this though.  If someone
> wants to code this up, patches are more than welcome if discussed
> ahead of time.  Your only option right now is to use the new 'balance
> disk space' option for Storage Groups in 0.22 and above, or to balance
> things manually yourself (what I do occasionally), or to write a perl
> script or hack something like my myth_archive_job.pl sample User Job
> to do this.
>    

Wow, nice timing.  Speaking of which: 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/myth_archive_job.pl

Feel free to improve on that script.

For MythTV proper, though, Chris's approach is the right one--to add the 
functionality to the backend.

Mike