[mythtv] Multiple recording directories

[Paul Greidanus]

>> Sounds like a lot of people have been thinking of multiple disks for 
>> a while.  I had some thoughts on it a few days ago, from a hack 
>> standpoint more then doing it right..  The multi-user thing is 
>> something that I'm also very interested in getting working.
>>
>> But, my idea for extra video disks:
>> Write up a script, probably Bash, that has a record of which disks 
>> are to be used for secondary video storage (/video1, /video2, 
>> /video3).  It checks for real files in /video, and after making sure 
>> they're not still being recorded, moves them to one of the video 
>> disks, based on available space on the secondary disks, and then 
>> makes a symlink in the /video disk for the recording.  Then just run 
>> this script every few hours, every day, or whenever.
>
> One problem with this is when MythTv deletes or autoexpires a recording.
> With sybolic links (as in fact I have at the moment) only the symbolic
> links get removed. There needs to be some code change in MythTv
> to handle this ...
>
> Terry
>
Could be hacked into my script idea too.. see if the link goes away, or 
check the database and see if the file has been expired, and delete it 
that way.. but this hack is going to get messy very quickly.