[vdr] Re: Brain-dead file systems.

["Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" <C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de>]

Hi @ all,
interesting how ideas must be found all over again months after the have
been originally suggested.
http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2002/05-2002/msg03361.html

Sorry,
I couldn't resist.

Christian.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carsten Koch [mailto:Carsten.Koch@icem.de]
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:41 PM
> To: Video Disk Recorder Mailing List
> Subject: [vdr] Brain-dead file systems.
> 
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> IMHO, it get's a bit annoying that cries for help like
> "all my recordings are gone since I installed a new VDR version"
> keep coming up about once a week on this list.
> 
> On the one hand, one could say "jeez, can't those people
> read the mailing list archives?".
> 
> On the other hand, this does seem like a trap designed
> for newbees to fall into.
> 
> Of course, I honestly believe Klaus should have never started
> to support brain-dead file systems in the first place. ;-)
> 
> But against better judgement - just to keep the useless
> mailing list traffic down. How about making vdr a bit more
> leniant, so at least it finds directories created with
> VFAT even if compiled without VFAT and vice versa?
> 
> What do you think?
> Good idea?
> Bad idea?
> 
> I do not have a VFAT file system, so it's a bit hard
> for me to create a real patch and test it, but I guess
> all that is required should look approximately like this:
> 
> in recording.c replace 
> 
> #ifdef VFAT
> #define DATAFORMAT   "%4d-%02d-%02d.%02d.%02d.%02d.%02d" RECEXT
> #else
> #define DATAFORMAT   "%4d-%02d-%02d.%02d:%02d.%02d.%02d" RECEXT
> #endif
> #define NAMEFORMAT   "%s/%s/" DATAFORMAT
> 
> with
> 
> #define DATAFORMAT_VFAT   "%4d-%02d-%02d.%02d.%02d.%02d.%02d" RECEXT
> #define DATAFORMAT_NORMAL   "%4d-%02d-%02d.%02d:%02d.%02d.%02d" RECEXT
> #ifdef VFAT
> #define NAMEFORMAT   "%s/%s/" DATAFORMAT_VFAT
> #else
> #define NAMEFORMAT   "%s/%s/" DATAFORMAT_NORMAL
> #endif
> 
> and replace
>      if (7 == sscanf(p + 1, DATAFORMAT, &t.tm_year, 
> &t.tm_mon, &t.tm_mday, &t.tm_hour, &t.tm_min, &priority, &lifetime)) {
> with
>      if ((7 == sscanf(p + 1, DATAFORMAT_NORMAL, &t.tm_year, 
> &t.tm_mon, &t.tm_mday, &t.tm_hour, &t.tm_min, &priority, &lifetime) ||
>          (7 == sscanf(p + 1, DATAFORMAT_VFAT, &t.tm_year, 
> &t.tm_mon, &t.tm_mday, &t.tm_hour, &t.tm_min, &priority, &lifetime)) {
> 
> would anyone with both normal an VFAT recordings would like 
> to test this?
> 
> If it works, maybe Klaus might want to put this into one of
> the next VDR releases?
> 
> 
> Carsten.
> 
>