[vdr] Re: Drop support for multiple video dirs? [was: Feature Request]

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

alexw@undercover.mine.nu wrote:
> 
> On Friday 03 October 2003 15:11, you wrote:
> > Manuel Hartl wrote:
> > > hi klaus,
> > >
> > > FEATURE REQUEST:
> > >
> > > it would be very nice, if vdr stores recording parts from a movie on the
> > > same drive.
> > > (including *.vdr files like index.vdr..)
> > >
> > > -> if a drive crashes (and it happend to me some months ago...)  you can
> > > tin ALL your recordings because they are distributed on the drives...
> >
> > What I would really like to do is to get rid of this
> > altogether! I shouldn't have implemented this "spreading
> > recordings over drives and linking them together" in the
> > first place, but at the time it seemed like a useful idea.
> >
> > Meanwhile disks are available in very large sizes, and if
> > someone really needs enormous amounts of disk capacity,
> > its probably a better idea to use a RAID approach.
> >
> > And even without support for several /video directories
> > you could still have several disks mounted under the top
> > level /video directory and store your recordings on the
> > various disks.
> >
> > So here's my proposal: if nobody objects I'd like to
> > drop the support for multiple /video directories in
> > version 1.3. If necessary I can provide a script that
> > converts an existing linked /video0, /video1,... structure
> > into a plain directory structure.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Klaus
> 
> I agree to the one video directory structure. But I just remember another
> question which is somehow linked to the /video folder. The /video folder
> is actually used to save the recorded/splited files and the epg infomation.
> Is it possible to relocate non record files in another folder? This will help to
> build a noiseless system (hard disk spin off issue). The disk will then only be
> needed when recording or playing recorded files.
> 
> Is this something you want to include in version 1.3?

No - because it's already there ;-)

See 'man vdr' or 'vdr --help', look for the -E option.

Klaus


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