[vdr] Re: vdr killed my video archive

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

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Ingo Janetzki wrote:
> >
> > Ulrich Petri schrieb:
> > >
> > > The direcetories are inside /video0 so there is nothing to wonder
> > > about...
> > >
> >
> > Of course, these links are inside /video0. How else should the archived
> > recordings show up in the list of recordings?
> >
> > But that's not the point! If you don't have enough space in the cellar,
> > it's of no use to throw away the furniture of your living room (unless
> > there is an automatism to rearrange things from cellar to living room).
> > It's the same with vdr. All necessary info is there: where does my
> > recording go? Is _there_ enough space left? Are _there_ any old
> > recordings that can be deleted? And NOT: Can I find old recordings
> > somewhere under the top level recording directory. A simple comparism
> > of the target partition of the current recording and the "delete"
> > partition would be enough to avoid this useless loss of data.
> 
> I can understand that you are upset because of this, but
> please understand that the original approach expected only
> one big disk, so it never occured to me that such a check
> would be necessary.
> 
> I agree that checking whether the recording that's about to
> be deleted is on the same partition as one of the /videoX
> directories. I'll implement this as soon as I find the time

Well, looks like this isn't just that easy...
I'll need to look into this again once I rewrite the video
directory code to make it keep recordings on the same disk.

In the meantime I'll change the default "Lifetime" parameter
to 99 (as suggested by Oliver Endriss) and will keep edited
recordings from being deleted automatically if the disk runs
full (as suggested by Emil Naepflein).

Klaus


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