[vdr] Quota and VDR (1.6.0)

[Manfred Schmidt-Voigt]

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> On 04/14/08 00:26, Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote:
>> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
>>> On 03/23/08 10:46, Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote:
>>>> Manfred Schmidt-Voigt schrieb:
>>>>> Hello List,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a diskless VDR machine in my livingroom (so its very quit). 
>>>>> My /video is mounted by nfs from a Servermachine under the roof. On 
>>>>> that server I have set a groupquota for that /video directory to 
>>>>> save some place for other applikations on that filesystem (raid 5 - 
>>>>> 4x400G).
>>>>> ...
>>>>> But the VDR Software doesn't recognize that. It does not start to 
>>>>> mark old recording for removing. In the menu overview it show still 
>>>>> some hours free space util the end of the complete filesystem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now my question: Do I have to configure something special in VDR 
>>>>> that it recognizes the Quota setting of that directory or have I to 
>>>>> use userquota for the user of VDR (in my case it is root but if it 
>>>>> is the only solution I could change it to a regular user, but only 
>>>>> if it helps for my problem)?
>>>>> ...
>>>> No, VDR is not able to follow Quota. It is looking only for the 
>>>> standard size parameters of the filesystem... ;-(
>>>>
>>>> So I had to help myself. The outcome is a patch/hack for my current 
>>>> VDR Version 1.4.5. But it should be easy to apopt it also to newer 
>>>> versions.  I have glued it together out of several GOOGLE sniplets. 
>>>> Maybe somebody can look over this patch who has more ability to code 
>>>> this according real C++ styles. I'm not used to progamm in C++. But 
>>>> for this little patch it was sufficient.
>>>> ...
>>> Sorry, but this is really too much to change for implementing quota 
>>> handling.
>>> ...
>> I have changed the patch a little bit because there was a logical fault 
>> in it. But now it's for vdr-1.6.0. I have not tested the xfs part 
>> because currently I use only ext3 or nfs. So this should be tested maybe 
>> by somebody else or if you would like to implement such a logic into vdr 
>> leave it out or comment it out or do it your own way. The problem here 
>> is that by each kind of check of the different filesystems you receive 
>> different numberunits of something what is called a block. It seems so 
>> that all the people, which implements  the quotalogic for the different 
>> filesystems, had a different thought what a block should look like...
>>
>> Manfred
> 
> I'll probably make a plugin interface for this. Then you can implement this
> outside of the core VDR code.
> 
> Klaus
> 
...

That sounds good and I can improve a little bit my C(++) knowledge...

Thanks
Manfred

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