On 04/20/09 10:56, Peter Dittmann wrote:
vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org schrieb am 15.04.2009 08:41:02:
vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleting empty directories in its video directories.
From the VDR/INSTALL file:
Note that you should not copy any non-VDR files into the /videoX directories, since this might cause a lot of unnecessary disk access when VDR cleans up those directories and there is a large number of files and/or subdirectories
in
there.
The video directory is VDR's own space, there shall be nothing else in there. If the user puts anything non-VDR related into it (even by mistake), it's their fault.
Klaus
A pretty much simplified approach ;-)
A simple use case:
- standalone settop box with VDR and DVD recording capability
- OS gets a seperate small partition
- /videoX get the big rest
Now install the usual suspects: vdr-burn or vdrconvert
They need a lot of temporary space. So there are two options:
- blocking ++20GB just for temporary files for burning and greating a
seperate partition
- put the temp files for burning in /videoX ;-)
The second approach is the most usefull assuming a typical 100..200GB HD. Hence the INSTALL file is a lame excuse. We should find a good aproach to solve this even when a single disc space is used. Don't forget, the majority of users will never use RAID, LVM and similar advanced concepts. Better focus on KISS.
Believe me, dedicating the video directory to VDR and VDR alone *is* KISS ;-)
Why not put the video directory one level down? Like
/vdr/videoX
and put the other stuff into /vdr, or, even better, into /vdr/other-stuff?
Klaus