[mythtv-users] Question on Recordings background

[Zig]

On 11/22/2013 6:11 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:25:10 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Stephen Worthington
>> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>> Just remember that you may still need to turn off the downloading of
>>> metadata, otherwise it will be filling up your hard disk and costing
>>> you on your Internet connection.  On the day I did my 0.27 upgrade,
>>> due to the bug that prevented the disable option from working, I had
>>> over 1 Gibyte of metadata downloaded into /var/lib/mythtv
>> I consider a gigabyte to be negligible these days.  That's what, about
>> 12 minutes of video at typical cable tv rates?
>>
>> Turning off metadata downloading is not a general solution to the
>> problem of wanting a theme without a display of background images.  If
>> you have multiple frontends and don't want the same theme on each one,
>> then you need to have metadata downloading on if any theme is to use
>> it.
>>
>> Eric
> In my part of the world, there are plenty of people who are on 10 or
> 20 Gibyte per month caps, so more than 1 Gibyte of data being used
> unexpectedly would be a real problem to them.  Let alone those who
> used to be on 1 Gibyte caps like my brother.
>
> But even worse, the default storage for the metadata (on Mythbuntu
> anyway) is on the system partition, and filling up your system
> partition can bring disastrous consequences.  Mythbackend can not
> write to the database, and if you are lucky, that will happen when the
> scheduler runs and creates its temporary table, resulting in it
> stopping all recordings.  If you are unlucky, it may happen during a
> recording, and that could cause corruption of your database.
>
> Have you checked how full your system partition is recently?
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A default Mythbuntu 12.04.3 install has everything except swap on one 
partition - system, metadata, recordings, database, etc.  So plenty of 
room...  Data caps not withstanding.
Ziggy
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