[mythtv-users] Multiple Watch Directories

[Jason Knisley]

I like the idea of recording groups, but the last time
that I proposed multiple recording directories, people
poo-poo'd it and said I should use LVM.

Personally, I detest the idea of software RAID for
anything. I've been recording to a SCSI RAID 5+Parity
and it's nice, but it runs out of space at about 80gb.
It's not really enough for long-term storage of some
things that I want to keep and frankly it would just
defeat the purpose of using SCSI RAID.

I was just trying to propose and idea in ten lines or
less because, just a few months ago, people were
acting as though it was highly specialized or
something. I'd personally love to see storage groups
(I know from experience that BeyondTV does it). It
seems like just a really good idea and a way to keep
either series seperate or to just keep disk archives
spanned easily without having to do this silly JBOD
thing.

It's good to hear someone else wants what I've been
wanting. :)

THanks,
Jason


> I've been thinking of these lines myself.  One
> option for me is to go to 
> LVM to add additional space but I don't like the
> idea of one bad drive 
> taking down the entire LVM set so I'm using 160GB
> drives where I rsync 
> one to the other for backup purposes.  I'm looking
> to add 250GB drives 
> to this mix and making that space available to Myth.
> 
> 
> On my list of patches to make would be the idea of
> "Storage Groups" 
> similar to recording groups only these Storage
> Groups would define the 
> prefix or filepath that a file lives under.  Right
> now all recordings 
> use the global filepath defined in setup.  With
> storage groups, each 
> recording would have a group assigned to it.  The
> Default group would 
> live in the system filepath.  Other groups would
> have their own 
> filepath.  Moving a recording between storage groups
> would move them on 
> the filesystem.
> 
> This would allow recordings to be assigned to
> storage groups at record 
> time and also then moved between them later for
> space management 
> purposes.  This would help those who do not use LVM
> for various reasons 
> add and use additional space in MythTV. 
> 
> Ideally this would be a simple table in the DB
> defining the storage 
> groups and their filepaths and a column in the
> recorded table marking a 
> recording in a particular group and another in the
> record table for 
> future recordings. 
> 
> Kevin
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