[mythtv-users] MythTV Installer Usability: An Analysis
ffrr
ffrr at tpg.com.au
Fri Nov 4 05:22:59 EST 2005
Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
>>
> Hmm, this is a case where i actually agree with the knoppmyth
> installer. I have several tuners (6 total) and when 5 (current
> concurrent max) are recording at the same time, i do not want the IO
> from the live buffer on the same disk-set. Also, for demo purposes i
> sometimes watch the demo HD MPEG2 channel, this takes a lot of data to
> the live buffer. For this reason the live buffer (actually all of them
> on the same) are on a separate U320 SCSI disk, used only for this.
> (bit of over-capacity, but i hate failures).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rudy
Yes, that is a good reason to put it on a separate disk, but not a
separate partition of the same disk, which is what Knoppmyth does.
Anyway, I still don't understand why it continues to grow. If I am
staying a fixed time behind 'live' then the buffer should be a fixed length.
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