[mythtv] Ticket #11752: Recordings may end up in live tv group

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Aug 16 15:10:18 UTC 2013


On 08/16/2013 09:57 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>> And, FWIW, there are very few reasons to ever define a Live TV Storage Group
>> (and the only case where it makes sense is a less-than-ideal system/storage
>> configuration--so I don't know of any good reasons to define it).  Not
>> defining a Live TV Storage Group allows MythTV to decide the most-ideal
>> location to store the new recording, according to the same Storage Group
>> Disk Scheduler selected for use with recordings.  And, for those who believe
>> that having a dedicated partition for Live TV is better to prevent expiring
>> something they want, dedicating space to only Live TV only reduced the
>> amount of space available for storing recordings.
>>
>> Unfortunately, though, mythtv-setup makes users think it's a good thing to
>> define the group by having a button specifically to create the group.  Users
>> see that and think, "I want to use Live TV," so they think they should/must
>> create the group.
>>
>> We may want to consider doing less to encourage users to create a Live TV
>> Storage Group--such as removing the button in mythtv-setup "(Create Live TV
>> group)".  Also, it makes sense to encourage distro packagers to stop
>> creating Live TV Storage Groups for users.
>
> I completely disagree.  I use Live-TV storage groups religiously.  If
> LiveTV is not in the same SG as my recordings, I can choose to backup
> just the recordings I care about, I can chose to RAID just my
> recordings, etc.
>
> Additionally, I created whats essentially a "WAF" storage group...
> containing shows that, if lost, might shorten my life expectancy.  The
> folders in this SG are rsynced to a separate machine for live backup.
> Additionally I have a cron that notifies me of any recordings that are
> too small to be useful videos so that I can try and remedy the
> situation before the wife notices.
>
> Storage groups are a very handy tool...and being able to create more
> of them to suit your needs is what makes them so great.

I only said we need to stop encouraging users to create this one.  For 
99% of users having a Live TV Storage Group defined does nothing 
useful--and actually probably reduces functionality.  I didn't say 
anything about removing the ability to create a Live TV SG, I'm only 
trying to make it so that users don't do it *unless they have good 
reason to*.

Mike


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