[mythtv] proposed patch: support multiple recording directories

[Jochen Kühner]

why don't you put it on the track server as a ticket???

http://svn.mythtv.org/track
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lincoln Dale" <ltd at interlink.com.au>
To: <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:28 AM
Subject: [mythtv] proposed patch: support multiple recording directories


> g'day,
>
> I've been running this patch for about 4 weeks now with no bad affects.
>
> What this patch does is allows you to specify multiple recording 
> directories
> (separated by commas).
> mythbackend will then 'choose' one of those recording directories based on
> which one has the most free disk space.
>
> Rationale behind this patch (rather than using DM/LVM/MD et al) is that
> creating one large partition means that if you lose a HDD you lose _all_
> content, not just part of your media store.
>
> The patch is larger than it could otherwise be.  The rationale is that I
> didn't want to change the database format or store the pathname in the
> database in any way.  This also means that you are free to move your media
> around _between_ your recording directories & it will still find the 
> media.
>
> As far as I know, everything seems to work ok, although I should state 
> that
> since I added this patch, I added another 2 x 350G disks for recording to 
> my
> backend so am not 100% confident that expiry won't do something bad...
>
> Looking for comments right now.  Will open a trac ticket if there is
> positive feedback or not. :)
> Isaac - would love feedback as to whether you think this is acceptable or
> not.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> lincoln.
> NB. Looking thru the patch, a minor change I made was in the default
> filenames chosen for recording (libs/libmythtv/programinfo.cpp:1294). That
> part isn't necessary but I found it useful when testing to 'see' what the
> programmes being recorded actually were...
>
>


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