Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread VDR User
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Steffen Barszus wrote: > You have missed something indeed. Don't assume poor implementation > without checking the facts or even read all of them. There are different > type of users, usages, requirements out there then you might think. This > is going from 300Mhz

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Udo Richter
On 21.04.2009 21:27, Ville Skyttä wrote: >> So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt >> tree for mounting any partitions. > > I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch. > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATE

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Ville Skyttä schrieb: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: > > >> So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt >> tree for mounting any partitions. >> > > I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch. > http://www.pathna

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: > So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt > tree for mounting any partitions. I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORA

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
VDR User schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Steffen Barszus wrote: > >> the content therein is pretty vdr specific. So the suggested (and >> sensible) recommendations are in fact not that obvious. This also shows >> that there is a solution/recommendation to create some .do_not_touch

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread VDR User
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Steffen Barszus wrote: > the content therein is pretty vdr specific. So the suggested (and > sensible) recommendations are in fact not that obvious. This also shows > that there is a solution/recommendation to create some .do_not_touch > files in possible empty di

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Peter Dittmann schrieb: >> I can't see any evidence for this symlinks, and I don't know a reason >> for this. >> The vdr gets told via the option '-v /var/lib/video.00' where the >> video dir is located. >> > > But you see what I'm pointing to. > The distries are usually mounting the partiti

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Dittmann
> Quoting Peter Dittmann : > > E.g. ctvdr/debian uses (I think ...) /var/vdr/videoX directly to mount the > > partition. > > The directories are named /var/lib/video.XX and this are not necessary > partitions, but could be of course. > > > Strange as it finally uses symlinks to create the /vide

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Gerald Dachs
Quoting Peter Dittmann : > E.g. ctvdr/debian uses (I think ...) /var/vdr/videoX directly to mount the > partition. The directories are named /var/lib/video.XX and this are not necessary partitions, but could be of course. > Strange as it finally uses symlinks to create the /videoX. So change wo

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Dittmann
> On 20.04.2009 10:56, Peter Dittmann wrote: > > A simple use case: > > * standalone settop box with VDR and DVD recording capability > > * OS gets a seperate small partition > > * /videoX get the big rest > > To add some more variations to the same solution the others already > mentioned: > > -

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Udo Richter wrote: > To add some more variations to the same solution the others already > mentioned: > > - Mount your big disk to /mnt/data > - Put video to /mnt/data/video > - either: >   - pass /mnt/data/video directly to VDR >   - put a symlink from /video to

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread Udo Richter
On 20.04.2009 10:56, Peter Dittmann wrote: > A simple use case: > * standalone settop box with VDR and DVD recording capability > * OS gets a seperate small partition > * /videoX get the big rest To add some more variations to the same solution the others already mentioned: - Mount your big disk

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Montag, 20. April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: > vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org schrieb am 15.04.2009 08:41:02: > > > vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleting empty > > > directories in its video directories. > > > > From the VDR/INSTALL file: > > > > Note that you should not copy

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 04/20/09 10:56, Peter Dittmann wrote: > vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org schrieb am 15.04.2009 08:41:02: > >>> vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleting empty >>> directories in its video directories. >> From the VDR/INSTALL file: >> >> Note that you should not copy any non-VDR fi

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Dittmann
vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org schrieb am 15.04.2009 08:41:02: > > vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleting empty > > directories in its video directories. > > From the VDR/INSTALL file: > > Note that you should not copy any non-VDR files into the /videoX > directories, > sin

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-15 Thread Steffen Barszus
Matthias Schwarzott schrieb: > I thought bind mount does work on even older kernels, still shouldn't > a symlink work too? Need to re-check - guess i mix something here. Some bind mount features only start working properly at 2.6.26+ (bind mount ro, move etc). Bind mounting readonly some directo

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-15 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Mittwoch, 15. April 2009, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Matthias Schwarzott schrieb: > > On Montag, 13. April 2009, Steffen Barszus wrote: > >> Hi all! > > > > Hi! > > > >> is there any way to let vdr ignore any directories which do not belong > >> to it ? > >> > >> What i have seen is that vdr is re

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-15 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 04/15/09 08:57, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> On 15.04.2009 08:24, Steffen Barszus wrote: >> >>> ...On the other hand i think what vdr does is a bad idea >>> and unnecessary. period. >>> Still I support the opinion that vdr should not silently delete files i

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-14 Thread Steffen Barszus
Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > On 15.04.2009 08:24, Steffen Barszus wrote: > >> ...On the other hand i think what vdr does is a bad idea >> and unnecessary. period. >> >>> Still I support the opinion that vdr should not silently delete files it >>> does >>> not know. >>> >>> >> vd

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-14 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 15.04.2009 08:24, Steffen Barszus wrote: > ...On the other hand i think what vdr does is a bad idea > and unnecessary. period. >> Still I support the opinion that vdr should not silently delete files it >> does >> not know. >> > > vdr is not deleting files it does not know. Its only deleti