Added a note to the INSTALL file regarding multiple disk setup becoming deprecated in a future version of VDR

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".