[vdr] Re: VDR feature request

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:20:14 +0100, Steffen Koch
<Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de> wrote:

> Hello community,
> 
> what about a feature to integrate a second "primary directory" into vdr 
> which is handled like video0 if you have more than one video partition. 
> E.g. no symlinks pointing there but original files like the index.vdr 
> summary.vdr, so you can move recordings there and play them directly 
> without the need for creating symlinks in video0.

This may be one possibility.

What I have done is to remove all files containing data theat belong to
a recording (except resume.vdr) to secondary partitions and have
symbolic links for all this files. 

I have a Perl tool called vdrmigrate which allows the complete migration
of one recording to a specific partition, or starting from the highest
secondary partition looking for enough space to keep the complete
recording. On migration always all files belonging together are moved to
the same partition and then automatically relinked into the primary
tree. 

As Carsten mentioned this is important to keep the loss of the number of
recordings to a minimum if something fatal happens to a partition. This
hit me once :-( and in more than 30 recordings there were single files
missing. Instead of loosing 30 recordings it could have been only 10 if
the files wouldn't have been distributed.

I use vdrmigrate regularily for all cutted recordings. I have also a
second tool vdrcheck which checks the consistency of the whole video
tree and allows to relink lost files into the primary.

If there is any interest, I can provide this tools. They work for me
with my video directory setup. They have to be adapted to your own
setup. I cannot take any responsibility if something goes wrong and you
loose your recordings. ;-)

Emil


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