[vdr] Re: Recording on different partitions seems to be broken

[Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@sphinx-electronics.de>]

Steffen Barszus wrote:
> 2 fat32-partitions , where the recordings should go to.
problem #1.

> The fat32 partitions are mounted under /mnt/win_d and /mnt/win_e. I've made 2 
> softlinks:
> 
> ln -s /mnt/win_d /video0
> ln -s /mnt/win_e /video1
this would be ok.

> started than vdr trough './runvdr -v /video0' results in that vdr use both 
> partitions and shows me a possible recording time of around 9 h. So far so 
> good. But recordings aren't successfull in these environment.
> 
> I had made 3 timers and let vdr cut after 1000 MB:
> 
> timer 1: 1000 MB are recorded , there exist only 001.vdr 
> 	   and summary,indexand so on and nothing else.
> timer 2: only summary.vdr are in that dir
> timer 3: the same as in timer 2


> 
> /var/log/messages :
> 
> vdr[14755]: timer 13 start
> vdr[14755]: record /video0/nano/2002-11-04.14.20.50.50.rec
> vdr[15071]: ERROR: /video0/nano/2002-11-04.14.20.50.50.rec/002.vdr: Operation 
> not permitted
here we go... no symlinks allowed on vfat, fat, whatsoever.

> vdr[15071]: ERROR: /video0/nano/2002-11-04.14.20.50.50.rec/002.vdr: Operation 
> not permitted
> vdr[15072]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (65 bytes dropped)
> vdr[15072]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes dropped)
> vdr[15072]: ERROR: ring buffer overflow (188 bytes dropped)
> ...

> These "operation not permitted" seems to kick in then vdr tries to write the 
> second file (002.vdr) and then it isn't possible to do further recordings.
> 
> Further I checked if the problem is gone than I delete the video1 symlink. 
> After doing that , no probs at all. 
> 
> I hope it's understandable what I 've written ;o). 
> 
> Could it be that the symlinking breaks something ? 
> Is it a bug ? 
> Have I did something wrong ?
yepp...
build a small around 1 GB ext2/3 disk for video0. no recordings will go 
there because its too small but it should have enough room for the 
symlinks, the summary, the indices etc...



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