[vdr] Fragmented recordings on FAT32?

[Ari Huttunen <ari.huttunen@f-secure.com>]

I have a FAT32 partition for data so I can easily access it from both
Mandrake 9.1
and WinXP. I'm wondering why VDR recordings show up as quite heavily
fragmented
when checking it on WinXP?

I had a recently formatted FAT32 partition, almost empty, I recorded
Philadelphia,
and that ended up as 001.vdr (56 fragments), 002.vdr (56 fr.), 003.vdr
(11 fr.)
and index.vdr (106 fr.).

If I had to take a wild guess, I'd guess that VDR writes the 001.vdr and
index.vdr alternatively, causing FAT32 to effectively interleave those
two files
on disk?? If this is indeed the problem, might I suggest  that index.vdr
allocate
new space in increments of one MB?

BTW,  the reason it was recently formatted was that I just lost two
recordings
because the filesystem was starting to break up, or something. I don't
see how
VDR could possibly cause the filesystem to break, so I guess Mandrake 9.1
filesystem drivers have some problems too.

Ari






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