[vdr] vdr killing its recording on symlink directory

[Helmut Auer]

Hi,

>>An even better idea (IMHO) would be to drop that whole video
>>directory symlinking stuff altogether and say "If you want a large disk,
>>use something like RAID or whatever". I was never a friend of this
>>linking, and regret the day I agreed to implement it...
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>I am totally against dropping this functionality. 
>
>On server systems with multiple TB of storage it would be just brain
>dead to put all recordings on one large raid filesystem. A single error
>in the filesystem could kill all the recordings. 
>
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>
I only have 1 TB of storage on my server and absolutely no problem of 
just using one disk of 300 GB for recording.
After recording I just cut the film and the result will be written on a 
server disk.

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Helmut Auer, helmut at helmutauer.de