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

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger 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?

Ok, this has become a rather lengthy thread with several
pro and con votes. Since those who use this feature and don't
want to switch to RAID or something the like would loose an
important thing, removing this feature is apparently not an option.

I'll therefore keep it alive and will try to make it so
that recordings are kept together on a single disk as far
as possible.

Klaus


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