[mythtv-users] MythTV miscalculates the amount of free disk space

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 02/03/2019 17:32, Jonatan Lindblad wrote:
> Den 2019-03-02 kl. 12:58, skrev Jan Ceuleers:
>> On 02/03/2019 12:36, Paul Harrison wrote:
>>> Since both drives are empty and otherwise identical, mythbackend can't
>>> tell them apart. For all it knows the mounts point to the exact same
>>> drive. Until there is content on one or both of the drives it's unable
>>> to tell them apart.
>>
>> Thanks Paul.
>>
>> Sounds like a bug to me though. I thought that the backend verified it
>> could write to each storage group by creating temporary files, so if
>> that's correct it would also be an opportunity for it to find out
>> whether directories it thinks are the same are in fact.
> 
> Nope, it is not a bug.  See this thread for example https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/280821#280821

Thanks Jonathan. Now that a recording has been stored on one of these
new disks the backend does indeed recognise the disks as separate.

Still looks like a bug to me though, even if it works as designed.

Anyway, case closed - thanks.