[mythtv-users] finer-grained expiry settings

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 16:38, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 16:15, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> >> On Oct 31, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >>> Right now I use Myth for Live TV, until I can get my tuner troubles
> >>> worked
> >>> out. I usually watch between 6pm and 4am. Because myth uses whole-
> >>> day
> >>> expiry intervals, it's usually expiring while I'm watching, because
> >>> the
> >>> default expiry is 1 day. I would prefer if Myth could expire
> >>> every 1.5
> >>> days so it's expiring when I'm not watching. This would be handy
> >>> later too
> >>> when I'm actually PVRing because the shows I want to watch tend to
> >>> cluster
> >>> in that same time interval so I'd rather expire outside that time.
> >>
> >> What's wrong with setting it to expire after 2 days?
> >
> > The my expiries still run at the same time I am viewing, just an
> > extra day
> > later.
>
> I guess I don't understand why it's a problem to expire older
> programs while you're watching newer programs. If you're experiencing
> HD latency issues while deleting large files, choose the "Slow
> Delete" option in mythtv-setup so your programs are slowly deleted
> over time and you don't get a delay while deleting a large file. Or
> you could switch your recorded programs to a JFS or XFS file system
> (assuming you're using ext3 now) to avoid the problem of not being
> able to access the drive while deleting programs.

I have Slow Delete enabled, and still get short pauses while an expiry 
runs, especially if there are lots of small expires, as happens when I am 
24 hours past a bout of channel-flipping. I guess I have a slow drive - it 
is a cheap consumer-grade one. It was just an idea to make recording and 
expiring less collide-able and let my disk focus on one or the other, 
taking advantage of my (narrow) viewing habits.