[mythtv] proposed patch: support multiple recording directories

[Lincoln Dale]

I was hoping for dev's to comment first before I do that.

Its been about 12 years since I last touched C++ so my coding is a little
rusty. :)

If dev's see no issue with the code as-is & are happy to accept the
functionality, I'll do just that.



cheers,

lincoln.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Jochen Kühner
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2006 5:09 PM
> To: Development of mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] proposed patch: support multiple recording
> directories
> 
> 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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