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The code for distributing recordings over several video directories is now deprecated and disabled by default

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Klaus Schmidinger
2013-08-23 13:09:27 +02:00
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@@ -325,38 +325,9 @@ Note that the file system need not be 64-bit proof, since the 'vdr'
program splits video files into chunks of about 2GB. You should use
a disk with several gigabytes of free space. One GB can store roughly
half an hour of SD video data, or 10 minutes of HD video.
If you have more than one disk and don't want to combine them to form
one large logical volume, you can set up several video directories as
mount points for these disks. All of these directories must have the
same basic name and must end with a numeric part, which starts at 0 for
the main directory and has increasing values for the rest of the
directories. For example
/srv/vdr/video0
/srv/vdr/video1
/srv/vdr/video2
would be a setup with three directories. You can use more than one
numeric digit:
/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.00
/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.01
/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.02
...
/mnt/MyVideos/vdr.11
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 /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".
Either use one of today's large terabyte disks (preferably with a backup disk
in a RAID-1 array), or use something like "mhddfs" to group several disks
into one large volume.
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