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Sound I triggered another religios war. I hope I will never regret this posting ;D
Basically the usually distribution between /videoX directories doesn't help here improving safety (doesn't matter if on RAID or single discs). A single failing disc/RAID will cause almost all recordings to fail because they are distributed. Often all recordings will miss at least one file after that. All thats left then are partial recordings, ergo useless.
This was/is the reason quite a lot of people move the cutted recording completely to one /videoX , so one recording is kept on one harddrive completely. To make this work you HAVE to symlink to /video0.
Agree, but for a different reason. Most people have not the money to start a RAID 5 at the beginning. I usually buy a new additional HD if needed.
Ok there is LVM . . .
Althought LVM works, a single disc failing in LVM crashes everything.
And try one time to add a new additional disc to a RAID 5 installation . . .
But thats another war . . .
See remark above. That you don't understand the intentions of others should not cause you to blaim others for not understanding vdr ;-)
I was just pointing out a weekness that may be worth fixing . . .
So keep it, please.
I would personnally rather vote for a round robin distribution of recordings not single files, but that a different thread. The circulating patch changing the file distribution method is not applied my vdr because I feared worse side effect.
regards Peter