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

[Manuel Hartl <icecep@gmx.net>]

hi
> > - why removing a feature, that does not disturb anybody (nobody _has to_ use it!?),
> Because it causes trouble and needs to be maintained?
ok i see...

> > it is an option! -> maybe leave it at least as compiler switch
> I'd really prefer to drop it altogether.
> > - with raid (stripes) i have the same problem (even worse!!) as the problems with a
> > crashed drive with the vdr solution. -> when the raid stripe crashes, there is nothing
> > left... (not even parts of recordings)
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of having a RAID system that
> can survive the death of one of its drives (I have no own
> experience with RAID, but AFAIK this would be RAID5).
>
> In my world a "normal" VDR has a (single) disk with something
> around 40-80GB, which is way enough for the average couch
> potato. If you build a system with a lot more disk space,
> you need to plan for the death of a drive, so I guess a real
> RAID5 would be best.
yes this would be raid5 oder raid10 (1,0 combined), both solution need extra drives.
in my vdr world, there a periods of weeks, when i cannot watch much tv. so i record very 
much and afterwards have a big archive of things i am interested in..

anyway: for me a drive can crash...hey its just some movies. but it is bad that the 
material on the other drives are then garbage too. that is just suboptimal :).
and extra drives (at least 1 for raid5 and at least 2 for raid10) is no option/unneeded 
option.

but i understand that there a only few users (like me) who use this... and if this 
subdirectory solution works....ok. i have got no experience with this.

bye.


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