[mythtv] Proposed alternate behaviour for show delete

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Brad Templeton wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:14:06AM -0500, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>Jeremy Palenchar wrote:
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>>That will still fill up the disk space on the user's machine with 
>>recordings they no longer want and thus making it impossible to store 
>>anything other than recordings on the disk.
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>Right, as may not be clear, this is the goal.   My impression is a
>significant proportion of myth users (perhaps the majority) put myth
>files on a disk partition dedicated only to myth.  Indeed, they often
>put it on a disk-spanning lvm dedicated only to myth.
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>As such, the space is for nothing else, and so why not have it always
>fully in use, until myth needs it for something new, which is what
>the autoexpire function does.
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Myth is a lot more than just a PVR?  Or have you missed 
MythMusic/Video/Gallery/Game?  All of which can require large amounts of 
disk space.  While I would agree that a large number of users have a 
large LVM devoted to Myth, I would be surprised to hear that those 
people only use the PVR aspects of Myth.