[mythtv-users] Recording Storage Limit

Andre mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk
Thu Jan 26 21:46:24 UTC 2012


On 25 Jan 2012, at 17:42, Raymond Wagner wrote:

> On 1/25/2012 10:37, Andre wrote:
>> On 25 Jan 2012, at 02:38, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> So, it turns out that a user came into IRC with the same issue and
>>> provided the logs.  Raymond Wagner found the bug and we'll be fixing it,
>>> soon--at least in unstable/development.  Not sure at this point whether
>>> we'll also put a fix in for 0.24-fixes or just say that 0.25 is the
>>> first to support very large storage arrays (>8TB).
>> Does this affect total storage group size or just single directory?
> 
> It is based off total free space per filesystem on 32-bit systems.  The 
> type used to store the free space is variable depending on the system, 
> which leads to problems when any individual filesystem's free space 
> exceeds 2TB, and flip-flops in 2TB increments.  You can record properly 
> if you have 4-6TB or 8-10TB free, but 2-4TB or 6-8TB free causes false 
> positives in the auto-expirer.
> 
>> Is there a bug report that details it yet?
> 
> No.
> 
>> I was just about to add some more storage to my ~6TB 0.24 system so maybe I'll shift some things to videos and wait a while...
> 
> As long as you're not recording to a striped array on a 32-bit system, 
> it should not affect you.

Thanks for the clarification, disks are simple xfs filesystems and backend is 64 bit anyway.

Sounds like moving some recordings on to the new drive would avoid the problem anyway, don't think I've seen more than 100GB free space in many years!

Thanks

Andre


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