[vdr] Re: vdr killed my video archive

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:51, Mario Schellenberger wrote:
> Hallo Oliver Endriss,
> am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003 um 02:09 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> 
> OE> It wrote to the disk until the disk was full (0 bytes free).
> 
> And then?
> It either had to stop recording or delete something. Guess it
> stopped?!

Nope. It did neither stop nor delete something.
vdr simply tried to write to the disk until the timer stopped.
IIRC there were a lot of 0xx.vdr files of size 0.

> OE> No problems otherwise.
> 
> Well, I use the harddisk just for recordings and nothing else, so I
> think there will really be no (system-)problems when this hdd is full.

Some people reported that they damaged file systems this way.
Never had this problem (using ext3).

Oliver


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