[mythtv-users] Can't get storage priorities correctly.

[Ram Ramesh]

On 11/17/23 10:59, Ram Ramesh wrote:
> I have two storage directories of vastly different sizes (1 TB SSD and 
> 10+TB spinning RAID1).  I had them both in default group and balancing 
> algorithm as "combined" with default setting. I thought that myth is 
> smart and will figure out and favor SSD over spinning disk when 
> possible. That did not work. So, I changed the algorithm to "Balanced 
> free percent" and was hoping it will keep about the same % of free 
> space in both disks. I noticed today that SSD has about 13% (96G)  use 
> (87% (660G) free) and spinning disks have about 94% (12T) use (6% 
> (770G) free).  This means next recording should go to SSD. However, it 
> is now writing to my spinning disks. What did I do wrong?
>
> Distribution: Debian bookworm (Linux 6.1.10)
> Myth: 31+fixes from debian-multimedia 
> (31.0+fixes20201214.gite9b795a1e4-dmo0~bpo10+1 as per apt)
>
> I only changed the storage priorities yesterday and the new recording 
> is the first one after that. Do I need to wait or reboot after 
> changing storage balancing algorithm before it takes effect?
>
> Regards
> Ramesh
>
Found the problem. I had not started mythtv-setup with sufficient 
privilege to  kill the running backend. So, even though it reported that 
it stopped backend, it did not. Thus my update did not make it to 
backend at all. Once I restarted backend manually, it seem to work as 
expected.

I wish backend-setup caught this error and failed instead of making me 
believe that everything is fine. Anyway, I am running an older version, 
and may be it is fixed already.

Regards
Ramesh
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