[vdr] cSafeFile and clusternfs

[Luca Olivetti <luca@ventoso.org>]

I'm testing what is going to be my vdr machine. It's a diskless pc which 
boots with etherboot and uses nfs for its filesystems (currently running 
vdr-1.3.8 with the streamdev-server plugin, the display is done on 
another computer with streamdev-client).
The nfs server is running clusternfs (http://clusternfs.sourceforge.net, 
basically because it's the easiest option to setup a diskless machine 
with mandrake). The "problem" (actually a feature) is that clusternfs 
maps files with "$" in the name in a special way depending on the client 
that reads/writes it (so you can have different files with the same name 
for different clients).
After a while I noticed I had a lot of files with strange names in the 
video directory (various copies of channels.conf, epg.data, setup.conf 
with funny and random suffixes). Besides, many times the "real" files 
(channels.conf, setup.conf) where corrupted (e.g, some epg data appended 
to channel.conf and/or to setup.conf).
I changed the suffix for the tempFile in cSafeFile constructor from 
"$$$" (a mapping that shouldn't be used anyway by clusternfs) to "###".
After variuos hours with vdr running after the change I don't have funny 
filenames anymore (one it's still there though: channels.conf00000de?), 
but there's still epg data appended at the end of channels.conf and 
setup.conf.

Is it simply a clusternfs bug? Any other idea?

Bye
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