[mythtv-users] Automatic deletion on drive fillup doesn't work

Chad masterclc at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 22:41:53 UTC 2005


On 9/8/05, Matt Goebel <matt at goebelnet.com> wrote:
> >> >I have 650GB on my master backend shared out the sole Myth slave
> >> >frontend/backend
> >> >via NFS on which I keep all my recorded shows.  A few days ago this filled
> >> >up.
> >> >Instead of automaticly deleting older or lower priority shows, as I
> >> >thought Mythtv
> >> >was supposed to do, it just continued on recording shows of 0 bytes.
> >
> > Just a hunch: although you specify the remaining disk space in
> > gigabytes, some filesystems reserve a certain percentage of the disk
> > for root's exclusive use so that logging and daemons would continue to
> > work if a run-away user process tried to fill the filesystem.  From a
> > user's perspective, "df" would show lots of remaining space (typically
> > 5% for ext2/ext3) but writing data to files would fail if it resulted
> > in an allocation request.  If that percentage is larger than the fixed
> > size you specified then the auto-expire routine would never be
> > triggered.
> >
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> 
> This is Reiserfs v3 /w LVM on a hardware RAID 5 array.  When I checked with df the
> whole filesystem was actually used up.  So it really IS full and no reserve...  The
> only thing this volume is used for is Myth storage, TV shows, video, music, etc.
> Programs are on another volume.
> 
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Do you have the "allow backend override" enabled?  This is supposed to
take care of this, at least that is how I understand it.

Cool


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