On 10/27/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
please forgive my ignorance of the Linux filesystem, but i thought that if you had a directory, /myth for example, that the directories in it would shrink and grow accordingly unless you set them to particular partitions. so /myth is on a 300GB partition and it contains /myth/tv. /myth/tv will grow as long as there is room on the partition. i'm guessing that shrinking is the problem since that's been mentioned with XFS and JFS... so my /myth/tv directory will grow to 200GB and then i decide to delete all my content. but with XFS /myth/tv is still 200GB in size even though it is empty? so if i want to add my dvd collection i've only got ~50GB of space left even though i've deleted all the content in /myth/tv..? if this is the case then i guess one of my scenarios would still work, but it would use space rather inefficiently. maybe we need to bug IBM into making XFS (that's theirs right?) shrinkable. :) cool stuff. it's funny how the more you play with your setup the more crazy ideas you get and the more stuff there appears to be done! _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
