[mythtv] Possible Future Option?

Michael D. Cencula mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:49:20 -0500


It would be nice to place different recordings under different paths so you 
could have recordings from one tuner card go to one hard drive and recordings 
from a second tuner go to a different hard drive.  This would (hopefully) 
result in less hard drive thrashing and better performance.

On Saturday 30 November 2002 00:54, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:49:02PM -0800, Jeremy Oddo wrote:
> > Perhaps you misunderstood me, because what I am talking about doesn't
> > seem beyond the scope of myth, seeing as how most of it is already in
> > myth! I'm not talking about fancy volume managment.  Right now we can
> > define where we want our recordings to go.  I was just thinking that it
> > would be cool to be able to define MULTIPLE paths (or an array of paths)
> > and then be able to select that "record to" path under the "settings"
> > option.  I'm not much of a coder, but I know this wouldn't take to much
> > coding.  And I'm guessing that a lot of the variables that are in the
> > settings.txt will end up in the settings option someday.
>
> I understood fine, but I cannot think of a realistic situation where would
> be useful to me.  Why would you want to place different recordings under
> different paths?