[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Paul Stillwell <bigboi at wackywombats.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Brent Bolin wrote:
>>
>>> Can find_orphans.py be used with .26 ?
>>>
> I'd really like to know the answer to this.  I've recently moved all
> my storage from a raid5(mdadm) to individual drives.  It's really a
> matter of time until one(5x5TB) of these drives fail.
>
> The web page says this python script works for .24 and .25

I just tried using it to delete orphaned recordings on my .26 system
and the backend crashed and needed to be restarted.

I've never had good luck with this script, so the problems may be
something specific at my installation.  I currently have around 1200
orphaned recordings.

Eric