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

[alexw@undercover.mine.nu]

On Friday 03 October 2003 15:31, you wrote:
> 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

Thanks a lot, I missed this one :-)

Alex




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