[mythtv-users] Optimal disk configuration for MythTV?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/26/2012 02:14 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Matt Goebel wrote:
>> I really am not too concerned about losing my recordings if a drive fails.
>> I'm not sure how myth behaves in that scenario though
> All that happens is you lose the ability to play back the recordings. You can use one of the utilities to clean things up, but I'm not sure if any of them will automatically change the information that says a program has been recorded in the past. That latter bit would be the ideal so that most* of your recordings would re-record when tey are next repeated (even if that's years hence).

find_orphans.py does delete recordings without files such that they will 
be allowed to re-record.

> * But not ones recorded with "find and record one showing" rules which I think are automatically deleted after recording, not rules you've deleted or made inactive.

Correct.  You must have a rule that matches the re-aired program or 
MythTV will not record it (and find rules are deleted once they've 
succeeded).

Mike