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

[Achim_Lange@t-online.de (Achim Lange)]

Hi, Carsten + Klaus,


On Freitag, Oktober 3, 2003, at 07:42  Uhr, Carsten Koch wrote:

> Manuel Hartl wrote:
> ...
> > and to get the recordings in these subdirectories? i hope you won´t 
> > tell me that i have to manually move them into them. this would be 
> > definitly no alternative...
> Why would you have to put them in there manually?
> If that were the case, the vdr subdirectory feature would be much less
> useful and vdr would be inconsistent with itself.
>
> The timer entry determines where the recording goes - including 
> subdirectory.
If you program it manually or by a tool, that does take care to 
separate recordings into categories.

At least vdradmin does not do this yet (as far as I know)

And if you separate recordings by category, it could be, that you e.g. 
can't record any more scifi-
movies, because there is no more free-space in that partition, but you 
have plenty of space for
news and comedy.

With the current approach vdr does the balancing automatically and if 
you want to record 1 hour
nobody has to care, where the necessary 2GB are free, even if they are 
spread over 8 partitions.

> I use epg2timers to create all my timer entries and epg2timers is 
> designed
> to create exactly the scheme I described in my first mail in this 
> thread,
> i.e. /video/genre/title/subtitle/*.rec
> Pure coincidence, of course. ;-)
>
> I do not know how other tools like the tvtv plugin or the HTML vdr 
> frontend
> handle that, but the option is definitely available to them as well, 
> so I
> would assume that they provide it to their users.
At least with vdradmin I did not see something like this.

> IMHO, it comes down to this: If you have just a few recordings, you do 
> not
> need subdirectories, but you also do not need multiple disks. ;-)
but with autotimers I can not know up front, in which categories I will 
have disk-space to use.

I currently use 5 partitions with around 40 GB each and ext3.

This setup works really nice with the multi-video-dir-setting.

The only alternative for me would be to use RAID0, but RAID is not 
upgradable on the fly.

cheers,
	Achim



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