[mythtv-users] Recent "pixelation" or "glitches" in recordings (HDHR related?)

[Dan Wilga]

On 4/24/13 12:26 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> Unfortunately, the storage drives in this scheme would be started more
> often than you would like.  When mythfrontend displays a list of
> programs, it makes a check for the presence of the recording's file
> and displays an X icon for those it can not find.  That checking
> process would start all the storage drives every time it happened as
> all partitions in all storage groups are scanned to find files.
But would it do that if what it saw was a symlink to the actual file, 
stored on another drive? Does it actually open the file, or just check 
to see if it's there?

I'm sort of liking this idea of having a single, always-spinning drive 
for active recordings, and then moving them to a larger disk array once 
they have been around for a while. If using a symlink on the recording 
device that points to the file on the larger device keeps the larger 
device (in my case, 5 drives) from spinning up, that would be a great 
way to conserve electrons.

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."