[vdr] Re: System freeze - scanning recordings ... --> FLATFILE?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Christian Glass wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> > > Just an idea:
> > > Wouldn't it improve performance to store the data
> > concerning recordings
> > > in a single flatfile?
> > What do you mean by "single flatfile"?
> 
> Single flatfile is meant to be a textfile -let's call it
> 'recordings.dat'- in which each line represents an existing recording.
> This flatfile is updated every time VDR finishes a recording or deletes
> a recording.
> The advantage would be that you don't need to scan the
> recordings-directory every time. You just parse the flatfile instead.
> This is IMHO significant faster.

Ah, I see. I'm going to do it that way in 1.3, but not in an explicit
external file. VDR will cache the recordings internally and update that
cache whenever it adds or deletes a recording.

Klaus


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