[vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

[Steffen Barszus]

Peter Dittmann schrieb:
>> I can't see any evidence for this symlinks, and I don't know a reason 
>> for this.
>> The vdr gets told via the option '-v /var/lib/video.00' where the 
>> video dir is located.
>>     
>
> But you see what I'm pointing to.
> The distries are usually mounting the partition directly and then use the 
> xxx/video[.]xx directly.
>
> Using the previous suggestion would mean the path tree of most of the 
> distributions need to be somewhat different.
> E.g. like this:
>
> /var/lib/vdr
>           |- video.00
>           |     |- video
>           |     |- somthing-else
>           |
>           |- video.01
>                 |- video
>                 |- somthing-else-2
>           ...
>
> So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt 
> tree for mounting any partitions.
> Then always create a (dummy) directory on the video partitions ("video" or 
> "vdr").
> Then linking this mounted directories as /var/liv/video.xx.
>
> /mnt/video.00 --> /mnt/[h|s]d[a-z][0-9]
> /mnt/video.01 --> /mnt/[h|s]d[a-z][0-9]
> ...
>
> /var/lib
>       |- video.00 --> /mnt/video.00/video
>       |
>       |- video.01 --> /mnt/video.01/video
>           ...
>
> Quite a difference to what is now.
> Hopefulls the distri maintainers read this and make some sensible changes 
> to the standard path tree to make VDR's video directories collision free 
> with temp directories for burn ...
>
> Obviously the distries are not based on usual use configurations currently 
> for how to handle the huge temp files for some of the tools for burning.
> This make life more complex and will cause a lot of individual effort to 
> modify the installation after the distribution is installed. 
> You can individually do a lot. It's just a matter of knowledge and ideas.
> But as I assume that currently 80..90% of VDR users are starting from a 
> distri rather than LFS this is a field issue.
> And obviously the safe mounting suggestion for a single disc system wasn't 
> that obvious.
> So there is room for improvement ;-)
>   

Yes agree - as i started the topic i need to admit i run into it not 
getting this idea even though i even played around with bind mounts 
short before ;)

For modern distribution i would suggest to use bind mounts however and 
mount point would be more likely /media/..... I think this is cleaner. 
Mounting the discs/partitions the way its done is the obvious way i 
think, and having a directory of its own and doing all kind of things to 
the content therein is pretty vdr specific. So the suggested (and 
sensible) recommendations are in fact not that obvious. This also shows 
that there is a solution/recommendation to create some .do_not_touch 
files in possible empty directories required by plugins to make them 
not-empty this way, to ensure vdr to startup with these plugins 
(dvdswitch, burn, etc)

I'm pretty sure it will now spread the word ;). For me the issue is 
solved with that and hope ctvdr , easyvdr etc will default it to 
something like that  :)

I have to do some updates to a few installations now to change it 
accordingly.

Kind Regards

Steffen