[vdr] Re: Recording on different partitions seems to be broken

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 14:24, you wrote:
> Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > 2 fat32-partitions , where the recordings should go to.
>
> problem #1.
>
> > The fat32 partitions are mounted under /mnt/win_d and /mnt/win_e. I've
> > made 2 softlinks:
> >
> > ln -s /mnt/win_d /video0
> > ln -s /mnt/win_e /video1
>
> this would be ok.
>
> > started than vdr trough './runvdr -v /video0' results in that vdr use
> > both partitions and shows me a possible recording time of around 9 h. So
> > far so good. But recordings aren't successfull in these environment.
> >
> > I had made 3 timers and let vdr cut after 1000 MB:
> >
> > timer 1: 1000 MB are recorded , there exist only 001.vdr
> > 	   and summary,indexand so on and nothing else.
> > timer 2: only summary.vdr are in that dir
> > timer 3: the same as in timer 2
> >
> >
> >
> > /var/log/messages :
> >
> > vdr[14755]: timer 13 start
> > vdr[14755]: record /video0/nano/2002-11-04.14.20.50.50.rec
> > vdr[15071]: ERROR: /video0/nano/2002-11-04.14.20.50.50.rec/002.vdr:
> > Operation not permitted
>
> here we go... no symlinks allowed on vfat, fat, whatsoever.
>
> > vdr[15071]: ERROR: /video0/nano/2002-11-04.14.20.50.50.rec/002.vdr:
> > Operation not permitted
> > vdr[15072]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (65 bytes dropped)
> > vdr[15072]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes dropped)
> > vdr[15072]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes dropped)
> > ...
> >
> > These "operation not permitted" seems to kick in then vdr tries to write
> > the second file (002.vdr) and then it isn't possible to do further
> > recordings.
> >
> > Further I checked if the problem is gone than I delete the video1
> > symlink. After doing that , no probs at all.
> >
> > I hope it's understandable what I 've written ;o).
> >
> > Could it be that the symlinking breaks something ?
> > Is it a bug ?
> > Have I did something wrong ?
>
> yepp...
> build a small around 1 GB ext2/3 disk for video0. no recordings will go
> there because its too small but it should have enough room for the
> symlinks, the summary, the indices etc...

I thought , that building vdr with VFAT=1 avoids vdr to making symlinks , 
seems to be right for one partition , but not for more than one ?

I would call it a bug ...

No problem at all , so I have to do the workaround, thanks for that.

Greets

Steffen



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