<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Lichti</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@redpepperracing.com">tom@redpepperracing.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Pinkham wrote:<br>> * On Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:15PM -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:<br>><br>>> Okay, that makes sense. The livetv stuff will never get separated from<br>>> the recordings directory (unless you care to code that yourself), so
<br>>> don't even bother trying to do that. DVD rips should go to the video<br>>><br>><br>> This isn't true. The concept of "Storage Groups" has been presented and<br>> discussed multiple times and this would allow you to create a Storage
<br>> Group and corresponding directory for LiveTV and as many other locations<br>> as you want.<br>><br>> I believe this is one of the reasons why Isaac recommended against using<br>> the current multiple-recordings patch, because we'd like to see Storage
<br>> Groups implemented. A Storage Group could include mutliple recording<br>> directories or a single directory. Recordings could be balanced between<br>> recording directories using various methods (most free space, least
<br>> recordings, local preferred over remotely mounted, etc.).<br>><br>> I've been updating my notes on this concept recently and it is quickly<br>> moving to the top of my TODO list, so it will come about, possibly before
<br>> 0.21, but I'm not promising anything.<br>><br>> I also am considering giving the ability to move a recording from one<br>> group to another via a builtin Job through the JobQueue.<br>><br>><br>Okay, maybe 'never' was too strong a word. I like the idea of storage
<br>groups as presented above, that's for sure.<br><br>Thanks for the update, Chris.<br><br>Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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