[mythtv-users] mythbackend deletes recording extremely fast

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/27/2014 06:25 PM, Karl Dietz wrote:
> On 27.04.2014 20:09, Nicolas Krzywinski wrote:
>
>> some recordings my MythTV box deletes really fast after the recording
>> time (slightly over 3 hours). Additionally this is a permanent delete
>> without the possibility to recover from the auto expire screen in
>> mythfrontend.
>> There are other recordings scheduled for deletion with equal priority
>> that are much older!
>>
>> Does mythbackend treat this recording as LiveTV type? It was no live tv,
>> but a "power search" recording rule of weekly type.
>> This does not happen arbitrarily for all types of recordings, it does
>> happen only to specific recordings ... but I have no clue why?
>
> I think this thread may contain some hints
> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-December/343988.html
>
> Basically the first guess is that you may have multiple file systems 
> with unbalanced expire-able recordings.

And make sure you do not use the Balanced Free Space (default) or 
Balanced Percent Free Space Storage Group Disk Schedulers if you're 
running with full file systems and relying on auto-expire for deletion.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/532093#532093

Mike