[mythtv-users] HELP! I want my mythtv!

[Joseph DeGraw]

On 04/13/2014 10:46 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Simon,
>
> Sunday, April 13, 2014, 4:36:06 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You could consider putting them
>>> in raid1. That way a drive failure won't cost you your data. With
>>> raid1 reading is faster since it is spread over the two drives.
>> RAID1 (mirrored) is no faster at writing than the slowest disk in
> True
>
>> the array, and reading might not be any faster - it's very
>> application dependent and in some cases the array can be slower than
>> single drives. For Myth, unless you want the redundancy, then raid is not beneficial.
> No, it is file size dependant. The spread read is managed by the
> kernel, but if the files are smaller then one block, it can not
> spread. With the recording files being so big!
> Actually storage groups only can give speed increase if you're
> recording two shows or watching and recording and they happen to be on
> separate disks. With raid1 the read speed increase is always (if the
> file is big enough).
> In optimum situation the max increase with storage groups can be
> higher, but is not guarantied!
>
> Tot mails,
>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
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Hika,

Since my crash I have all these recordings showing still in the database 
but no actual recordings. I guess you would call them "ghost 
recordings". Do you know of a quick way to wipe the recorded listings of 
the non existant recorded shows?

Doing them all by hand is pretty intensive....

Joseph