Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-08 Thread Peter Schade
mythtv-dev@mythtv.org Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:16 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks With that tangent... I run Myth with previews turned off. How do I turn off the previews in MythWeb? Thanks, John

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-08 Thread John Patrick Poet
- From: John P Poet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Development of mythtv mythtv-dev@mythtv.org Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:16 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks With that tangent... I run Myth with previews turned off. How do I turn off the previews in MythWeb

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-06 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Monday 04 July 2005 11:37, Terry Barnaby wrote: Another useful feature would be to stop MythTv accessing the other disks when the watch recordings screen is displayed. At the moment Myth appears to startup all of my powered down disks when the user opens the watch recordings screen. You

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-06 Thread John P Poet
On 7/6/05, Joseph A. Caputo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 July 2005 11:37, Terry Barnaby wrote: Another useful feature would be to stop MythTv accessing the other disks when the watch recordings screen is displayed. At the moment Myth appears to startup all of my powered down disks when

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
Brandon Beattie wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:58:30AM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: One useful feature of separate non raided/LVM'ed disks that I use is to power down the disks that are not in use. This saves power and increases disk life. I did have a 10 minute power safe enabled on my

RE: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-04 Thread Thomas M. Pluth
Comments? How about something like this ; 1) Define a single location for recordings. This should be a high speed disk right on your master backend and have enough available space to handle your typical daily recording load. 2) Define a group of long term storage locations. These could be

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
Thomas M. Pluth wrote: Comments? How about something like this ; 1) Define a single location for recordings. This should be a high speed disk right on your master backend and have enough available space to handle your typical daily recording load. 2) Define a group of long term storage

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-07-01 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:58:30AM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: One useful feature of separate non raided/LVM'ed disks that I use is to power down the disks that are not in use. This saves power and increases disk life. I did have a 10 minute power safe enabled on my drives, and that may be the

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-06-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
Randall J. Parr wrote: Brandon Beattie wrote: Well it happened, one of 5 disks in my LVM setup went bad and the claims of every LVM user I know didn't come true (That if you lose one disk, you can still get to the data of the rest). From this I had an idea and wanted to see if it's a good

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-06-27 Thread Randall J. Parr
Brandon Beattie wrote: Well it happened, one of 5 disks in my LVM setup went bad and the claims of every LVM user I know didn't come true (That if you lose one disk, you can still get to the data of the rest). From this I had an idea and wanted to see if it's a good idea for Myth.

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Brandon Beattie wrote: Recordings would work like this. Just like in various mythplugins you would be able to specify various locations to store recordings to. This wouldn't be hard of course.. if that directory doesn't have enough space, use another directory. If no directories exist, expire

Re: [mythtv] New idea for storing recordings to disks

2005-06-27 Thread Min Idzelis
I really like the idea of remote network storage. If you are running out of space on a local machine, some of the older recordings can be moved to the remote network storage instead of being auto-expired. Of course, if the remote storage is slow (over an internet link for example) you'd want to