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

[alexw@undercover.mine.nu]

On Friday 03 October 2003 15:11, you wrote:
> 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..)
> >
> > -> if a drive crashes (and it happend to me some months ago...)  you can
> > tin ALL your recordings because they are distributed on the drives...
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Klaus

I agree to the one video directory structure. But I just remember another 
question which is somehow linked to the /video folder. The /video folder 
is actually used to save the recorded/splited files and the epg infomation. 
Is it possible to relocate non record files in another folder? This will help to 
build a noiseless system (hard disk spin off issue). The disk will then only be 
needed when recording or playing recorded files.

Is this something you want to include in version 1.3?

Alex







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