[mythtv] mutliple storage directories idea... ?

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:23, Neil Cronin wrote:
> On 10/25/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> > Steve Adeff wrote:
> > >Guys, something that is coming up a lot lately on the users list, mostly
> > > due to HDTV file sizes, is how to "merge" more than one drive. Right
> > > now LVM or RAID 0 are the only real options.
> > >
> > >So I'm wondering if any of the dev's have though about allowing for
> > > mutliple directories for storage, or perhaps using a:
> > >xxx\MythTV\1
> > >xxx\MythTV\2
> > >xxx\MythTV\3
> > >xxx\MythTV\...
> > >setup where one could just mount new drives to allow MythTV to increase
> > > its storage space?
> >
> > This has been discussed before and I think many agree it would be a
> > worthwhile idea, it also hasn't gone high enough on anyone's list to
> > code it probably because LVM does a 'good enough' job of handling this.
> >
> > Kevin
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> In addition to LVM, someone wrote a script called "myth balance" (or
> similar) that runs nightly and moves files over a configured set of
> devices and then symlinks them back to the /video/ directory.  A
> clever hack that would probably work for a lot of people.
>
> Something like this could probably be integrated into the standard
> backend distribution and make life easier for a lot of folks who don't
> want to deal with LVM for whatever reason.
>
> -neil

yea, this script was brought up, but it seems like a cleaner fix would be to 
support mutliple directories directly. there have also been recent issues 
with symlinked files and deleting shows.

From a user perspective, LVM's are a tad tricky to safely and properly 
implement and don't allow for very good backup(or at least I've been told). 

I don't know how difficult it would be to include multiple directories to the 
backend, I think it should at least be given some more consideration.

Steve