[vdr] Re: HD Spindown

[Jörg Knitter <joerg.knitter@gmx.de>]

> It's not very good idea to shut down the bdflush daemon (you may lose
> hours
> of changes in system files on a system crash).
> 
> But for those having many disks, what about an idea of having
> configuration
> files in a place that can be updated (old, small and silent disks can
be
> bought on quite reasonably price, if you are lucky). The video-files,
on
> the
> other hand, could be on another disk that is never touched unless a
> recording is happening, or a video is being played.

What about setting up a ramdisk that stores the VDRtmp directory? When
shutting down VDR, this directory can be written back to disk so no
settings are lost.

Jörg



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