On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:42:15PM -0500, Andrew Close wrote: > On 10/27/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip/> > > Hopefully in the next few months myth will support storing to multiple > > directories, which would remove the need for LVM or having to worry > > about losing anything but what was on that drive. > > excellent thread! :) i had to come back to the above statement > because i've seen it mentioned before and am just looking for a little > clarity. > > storing to multiple directories - what is meant by that? > do you want to store all your Lost episodes in /myth/tv/Lost, and all > of your SG-1 episodes in /myth/tv/SG-1? so you have subdirectories > under /myth/tv. > > or do you mean breaking outthe directories into their own partitions - > /dev/hdb1 = /myth/tv/Lost > /dev/hdb2 = /myth/tv/SG-1 > > you can kind of do this now, can't you? without the subdirectories - > /dev/hdb1 = /myth/tv > /dev/hdb2 = /myth/video > etc...
There have been a number of ways proposed. My current thought of the "best" is to allow you to create "storage groups". You can add directories to a storage group and list how much space in MB (or how much to leave free on that directories partition). When you record a TV show you can have it save it to the general storage group, or have it save it to a specific one. The difficulty in any mutliple directory approach is what happens when you have 5 GB free in this directory, 20GB free in another, and 500K in another. Do we split up video streams, do we move files between them, and so on. a 4 hour HD show that's 36GB can be tricky. If you had 6 drives and anywhere from 5GB to 20GB free, which do you store to? Add in auto-expire and it gets even more tricky. Noone has felt like they know how things should be done enough to actually write it, so support has never been added. --Brandon
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