Hi,
On my system, disk usage is always about 99%, because VDR cares about deleting old recordings, when needed.
But when editing a recording, the automatic deletion fails:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 17:36:28 vdr[28116]: [28116] info: Editing process started 17:36:50 vdr[28116]: [28834] low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording... 17:36:50 vdr[28116]: [28834] ...no deleted recording found, priority -1 too low to trigger deleting an old recording 17:36:50 vdr[28116]: [28116] warning: Low disk space! 17:37:01 vdr[28116]: [28834] low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording... 17:37:01 vdr[28116]: [28834] ...no deleted recording found, priority -1 too low to trigger deleting an old recording 17:37:01 vdr[28116]: [28116] warning: Low disk space! 17:37:09 vdr[28116]: [28116] ERROR: 'safe_write' during editing process 17:37:10 vdr[28116]: [28116] ERROR: Editing process failed! --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
How could I make VDR delete old recordings, when low on disk space because of an editing process please?
TIA for any hints,
On 18.02.2016 17:45, Peter Münster wrote:
Hi,
On my system, disk usage is always about 99%, because VDR cares about deleting old recordings, when needed.
But when editing a recording, the automatic deletion fails:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 17:36:28 vdr[28116]: [28116] info: Editing process started 17:36:50 vdr[28116]: [28834] low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording... 17:36:50 vdr[28116]: [28834] ...no deleted recording found, priority -1 too low to trigger deleting an old recording 17:36:50 vdr[28116]: [28116] warning: Low disk space! 17:37:01 vdr[28116]: [28834] low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording... 17:37:01 vdr[28116]: [28834] ...no deleted recording found, priority -1 too low to trigger deleting an old recording 17:37:01 vdr[28116]: [28116] warning: Low disk space! 17:37:09 vdr[28116]: [28116] ERROR: 'safe_write' during editing process 17:37:10 vdr[28116]: [28116] ERROR: Editing process failed! --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
How could I make VDR delete old recordings, when low on disk space because of an editing process please?
In the file cutter.c locate the line
AssertFreeDiskSpace(-1);
in the function cCuttingThread::ProcessSequence(). Chnage the '-1' to whatever value between 1 and 100 you like. Note, though, that this will remove old recordings with priorities up to the given value minus one.
Klaus
On Fri, Feb 19 2016, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
In the file cutter.c locate the line
AssertFreeDiskSpace(-1);
in the function cCuttingThread::ProcessSequence(). Chnage the '-1' to whatever value between 1 and 100 you like. Note, though, that this will remove old recordings with priorities up to the given value minus one.
Hi Klaus,
This does not work, because when cutting, vdr writes to disk too fast. That means that "Factor = 10" is needed in AssertFreeDiskSpace(). So "-1" is the right choice here.
I think, that the solution is much simpler: IMO there is no need for special treatment of priorities -1 and 0 in AssertFreeDiskSpace(). If you remove the line "if (Priority > 0) {", then the problem is solved. I've tested it, and it works ok.
You should remove this line anyway, because if someone selects priority = 0 for some timer, the recording would fail if the disk is full, even when there are recordings with expired lifetime.
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Klaus Schmidinger -
Peter Münster