From 87acd119ceac72301b02105599da069d4ed32b4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:20:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added a note to the INSTALL file regarding multiple disk setup becoming deprecated in a future version of VDR --- HISTORY | 4 +++- INSTALL | 9 +++++++-- UPDATE-2.0.0 | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index a6c84f66..db43e707 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -7730,7 +7730,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History to avoid problems with SD-FF cards in case the user switches to the "ST:TNG" or "Classic" skin. -2013-03-12: Version 1.7.41 +2013-03-14: Version 1.7.41 - Updated the Hungarian OSD texts (thanks to István Füley). - Updated the Russian OSD texts (thanks to Oleg Roitburd). @@ -7748,3 +7748,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History - Fixed stopping an ongoing recording on a system with bonded devices, if a timer with a higher priority requires a different band. - Updated the introductory text of the vdr.1 man page. +- Added a note to the INSTALL file regarding multiple disk setup becoming deprecated + in a future version of VDR. diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index cb0cdd66..dd0c999e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -351,7 +351,12 @@ would set up twelve disks (wow, what a machine that would be!). To use such a multi directory setup, you need to add the '-v' option with the name of the basic directory when running 'vdr': - vdr -v /video0 + vdr -v /srv/vdr/video0 + +WARNING: Using multiple disks to form one large video directory this way +is deprecated and will be removed from VDR in a future version! Either +use one of today's large terabyte disks (preferably with a backup disk +in a RAID-1 array), or use something like "mhddfs". Note that you should not copy any non-VDR files into the video directory, since this might cause a lot of unnecessary disk access when VDR cleans up those @@ -359,7 +364,7 @@ directories and there is a large number of files and/or subdirectories in there. If you have a large disk that you want to use for VDR's video data as well as other stuff, you may want to create a subdirectory for VDR, as in - /mydisk/video0 + /mydisk/video and put your other stuff into, say, diff --git a/UPDATE-2.0.0 b/UPDATE-2.0.0 index 0632bfba..c24fcb0d 100644 --- a/UPDATE-2.0.0 +++ b/UPDATE-2.0.0 @@ -478,3 +478,7 @@ Misc: to avoid discontinuities. If the time difference is more than 10 seconds, stime() is still used to do the initial sync. - Implemented scaling of SPU bitmaps. +- WARNING: Using multiple disks to form one large video directory is deprecated and + will be removed from VDR in a future version! Either use one of today's large + terabyte disks (preferably with a backup disk in a RAID-1 array), or use something + like "mhddfs".