Roy Wood wrote: > The HTPC I'm setting up is going to run primarily from a > compact-flash/IDE drive. The OS (Ubuntu) will be installed to the > CF/IDE drive, and all the movie, TV, music files will be on external > drives. > > Given that the CF/IDE drive is limited in its available storage, I'd > like to make sure Freevo writes as little data there as possible. So > far, I've found the "OVERLAY_DIR" setting in local_conf.py, which > sounds as if it controls where all the fxd files are stored. I'm not > sure what else Freevo stores in /home/freevo, or how to redirect that > (if possible). > > Anyone have any advice on what to look at to minimize writing to > /home/freevo and anywhere else on the main file system? I know there > are a couple of environment variables that are relevant, too-- is > there a comprehensive list anywhere?
There are some setting to control how much and freevo writes data. DEBUG should be 0 and there are some no cache setting in the local_conf.py and there is FREEVO_STATICDIR, FREEVO_CACHEDIR and FREEVO_LOGDIR that can be set. See the src/config.py file and the freevo_config.py file for more details. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
