[mythtv-users] reconciling database and recorded files

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 00:29:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com>wrote:

> On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Ryan Steffes wrote:
>
> Been playing myth.find_orphans.pl,  it seems to me that I get a number of
> false positives for "unknown files" due to having overlapping storage groups
> on multiple backends.  The reason is because it's pulling the list of known
> files for a single backend, so files attributed to another backend in the
> same storagegroup are seen as unknown files.
>
> What I'm debating is whether it's "better" behavior to simply disable the
> hostname check and check for all files or to check unknown files against
> other backends.
>
> Anyone have a strong opinion?
>
>
> Is "overlapping storage groups on multiple backends" a supported
> configuration? Seems to me like every backend should have their own storage
> group.
>

I'd kinda expected it to be the most common configuration, especially since
the backend can prioritize hard drive by location and fullness, at least
among people who use storage groups.
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