Matthias Schwarzott schrieb:
I thought bind mount does work on even older kernels, still shouldn't a symlink work too?
Need to re-check - guess i mix something here. Some bind mount features only start working properly at 2.6.26+ (bind mount ro, move etc). Bind mounting readonly some directory makes full disk read only, but thats not required anyway here.
So I did setup lvm on my harddisks and made my video partition a logical-volume that can span as many harddisk as I let join the volume group. Still some time ago I had a setup using vdr's own support for multiple disks as you use it.
On LVM how does one know which disk will be used ? thats the main advantage - that all "handling data" is on slow, low power, silent, cool harddisk, real data gets on the big ones.
So I suggest you mount your disks somewhere else (like /mnt/large1 /mnt/large2) and then do bind mounts or symlinks from /var/lib
# mount /dev/disk1 /mnt/large1 # mount /dev/disk2 /mnt/large2
# mkdir /mnt/large1/video # mkdir /mnt/large1/video
# mount --bind /mnt/large1/video /var/lib/video.01 # mount --bind /mnt/large2/video /var/lib/video.02
Will test that