[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

[Mark Lord]

On 12-04-20 12:51 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 4/20/2012 12:40, Mark Lord wrote:
>>>>> It's not doing anything fancy, it just runs statfs on the path you give it.
>>>> There's the bug.  It should open the path, and the use fstatfs(fd, ..).
>>>> Doing it that way would make symlinks transparent to it, as they should be.
>>> So less a bug, and more a feature request (with a patch) for a strange and uncommon configuration.
>> All eight mythtv setups that I know about have the same style of configuration.
> 
> So they're all strange.  Why not just point MythTV directly at the directory?  MythTV only ever
> records to the root of the directory you give it, so it's not like symlinking in multiple folders is
> going to get you more storage space.  You still have to define each in mythtv-setup.  It's not going
> to allow you to bypass some file permissions restrictions.  Even if you frequently move the mount
> location of those storage drives, symlinks are only slightly more convenient to change than the
> values in mythtv-setup.
> 
> I'm just not understanding what benefit doing it that way could provide.

It lets me move the storage directories around without having to
fuss with mythtv-setup and other places that might have a hardcoded path.

Symlinks are an incredibly useful feature, you should discover them someday.

Meanwhile, one more patch for the hundred or so workarounds already in my local tree.

Cheers