[vdr] Re: Drop support for multiple video dirs? [was: FeatureRequest]

[Onno <onnok@web.de>]

Hi,

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> Manuel Hartl wrote:
>
> > hi klaus,
> >
> > FEATURE REQUEST:
> >
> > it would be very nice, if vdr stores recording parts from a movie on the
> > same drive.
> > (including *.vdr files like index.vdr..)
i do agree on that, atleast for the 00n.vdr files this is reasonable since 
that way no partitial recording get lost, only full ones :-(.

> What I would really like to do is to get rid of this
> altogether! I shouldn't have implemented this "spreading
> recordings over drives and linking them together" in the
> first place, but at the time it seemed like a useful idea.
well it still is, since raid would higher the loss, in case some one does 
not have at least 3 disk, and i wouldn't raid 5 my video stuff, since 
outages never came suddenly to me, they always "knocked on the door" before 
entering. and setting up a raid is not trivial, and it lowers the possibilty 
to recover files in case the os gest stuck.

> Meanwhile disks are available in very large sizes, and if
> someone really needs enormous amounts of disk capacity,
> its probably a better idea to use a RAID approach.
hmm, i used raid at work in small and large scale, and compared to
having separate disks i see no reason to use for video files, exerpt
you wanted to protect it realy, which is quite expensive.

> And even without support for several /video directories
> you could still have several disks mounted under the top
> level /video directory and store your recordings on the
> various disks.
yes, that would be possible, but one losses the balancing mechanissm,
i love that mechanissm, since this way i can encode files (vdrrip plugin) to 
disk-01 and vdr automaticaly takes care of balancing the remaining 
diskspace,in the case of mounted folders i would have to copy vdr and or 
divx recordings manualy to make space for either new vdr recordings or new 
encoded divx files (which i store on disk like vdr recordings).

> So here's my proposal: if nobody objects I'd like to
> drop the support for multiple /video directories in
> version 1.3. If necessary I can provide a script that
> converts an existing linked /video0, /video1,... structure
> into a plain directory structure.
>
> Any comments?
hope you don't mind, i object for the sake of not changing it to keep what's 
known to work, or does someone know better?


Regards Onno



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