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krose+mythtv at krose

May 30, 2004, 7:30 AM

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free space-balancing across multiple recording dirs?

Is there a TODO item to allow one to specify multiple recording dirs,
and balance free space among them? I'd like to set up multiple drives
*without* RAID and not have to change the recording dir manually when
one drive becomes close to full. If this isn't on anyone's radar, I
may take a crack at it, assuming there isn't significant objection to
it.

Cheers,
Kyle

jdonavan at jdonavan

May 30, 2004, 7:46 AM

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Re: free space-balancing across multiple recording dirs? [In reply to]

Kyle Rose wrote:

>Is there a TODO item to allow one to specify multiple recording dirs,
>and balance free space among them? I'd like to set up multiple drives
>*without* RAID and not have to change the recording dir manually when
>one drive becomes close to full. If this isn't on anyone's radar, I
>may take a crack at it, assuming there isn't significant objection to
>it.
>
>

What's wrong with LVM? Aside from that all the dirs have to be local...
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paul_woodward at fastnet

May 30, 2004, 8:47 AM

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Re: free space-balancing across multiple recording dirs? [In reply to]

I've been thinking of writing a simple (cronjob) script to move files onto
another drive and sim-link them back to the original place. Simple but would do
the job easily.

Paul

Quoting "J. Donavan Stanley" <jdonavan [at] jdonavan>:

> Kyle Rose wrote:
>
> >Is there a TODO item to allow one to specify multiple recording dirs,
> >and balance free space among them? I'd like to set up multiple drives
> >*without* RAID and not have to change the recording dir manually when
> >one drive becomes close to full. If this isn't on anyone's radar, I
> >may take a crack at it, assuming there isn't significant objection to
> >it.
> >
> >
>
> What's wrong with LVM? Aside from that all the dirs have to be local...
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mdz at debian

May 31, 2004, 3:46 PM

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Re: free space-balancing across multiple recording dirs? [In reply to]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:46:07AM -0400, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Kyle Rose wrote:
>
> >Is there a TODO item to allow one to specify multiple recording dirs,
> >and balance free space among them? I'd like to set up multiple drives
> >*without* RAID and not have to change the recording dir manually when
> >one drive becomes close to full. If this isn't on anyone's radar, I
> >may take a crack at it, assuming there isn't significant objection to
> >it.
>
> What's wrong with LVM? Aside from that all the dirs have to be local...

Not quite; I believe LVM works with the nbd driver these days.

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