On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Paul Greidanus wrote: > > >> Sounds like a lot of people have been thinking of multiple disks for > >> a while. I had some thoughts on it a few days ago, from a hack > >> standpoint more then doing it right.. The multi-user thing is > >> something that I'm also very interested in getting working. > >> > >> But, my idea for extra video disks: > >> Write up a script, probably Bash, that has a record of which disks > >> are to be used for secondary video storage (/video1, /video2, > >> /video3). It checks for real files in /video, and after making sure > >> they're not still being recorded, moves them to one of the video > >> disks, based on available space on the secondary disks, and then > >> makes a symlink in the /video disk for the recording. Then just run > >> this script every few hours, every day, or whenever. > > > > One problem with this is when MythTv deletes or autoexpires a recording. > > With sybolic links (as in fact I have at the moment) only the symbolic > > links get removed. There needs to be some code change in MythTv > > to handle this ... > > > > Terry > > > Could be hacked into my script idea too.. see if the link goes away, or > check the database and see if the file has been expired, and delete it > that way.. but this hack is going to get messy very quickly.
There is already a check-box on one of the setup screens to tell Myth to follow sym-links when deleting programs. I know from personal experience that it works. I don't remember which setup page it is on. Maybe it is only in the CVS, and that is why you don't see it? John
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