[vdr] Re: Fragmented recordings on FAT32?

[Frederick Page <fpage@thebetteros.oche.de>]

Hi Ari,

Ari Huttunen wrote on Sun, Nov 09 2003:

>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??

Well, I tend to agree, when watching the files during a recording, you
will see, that *.vdr and index.vdr indeed grow simultaneously. But
since only about 500 KB/sec are written/read, the fragmentation should
not cause any problems for modern HDs.

Kind regards  Frederick



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