[mythtv-users] Storage Directories - Rotate?

[Trey Thompson]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 07/08/2008 02:35 PM, Trey Thompson wrote:
> > Is there a way to have the storage directories rotate?  For example, I
> > have two drives:
> > /mnt/drive1
> > /mnt/drive2
> >
> > I currently have all recordings going to drive 1.
> >
> > It's my understanding that if I setup another directory in the
> > recording group to point to /mnt/drive2, then that will only be used
> > when drive1 is full.
> >
> > Can this rotate so that as new recordings start, they go back and forth?
>
> By default, Myth will select the "local" filesystem with the most space
> available for new recordings, where "local" means one accessible through
> the filesystem (whether an NFS/CIFS mount or actual local storage).
> (Note that you can affect its preference, making some filesystems less
> likely to be used, but that's another story.)  The only time the default
> rotation won't really work is if you have separate backends without NFS
> mounts.
>
> On my system, which consists of 2 backends each with local-only storage
> and no NFS exports, I've configured cardinputs such that the 1st and 4th
> inputs defined are on the master backend and the 2nd and 3rd inputs are
> on the slave backend.  With that approach, the first recording to start
> gets input 1 and, therefore, writes to the master backend.  However, any
> time 2 or more recordings overlap, the 2nd and 3rd will be written to
> the slave backend's storage.  When 4 overlap, the 4th will be back on
> the master backend.
>
> Mike
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Sweet!  That's what I was looking for!  I'll have it balance it out for now,
then maybe later try to get tuners go to separate disks for performance
issues.
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