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authorKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2013-08-23 13:09:27 +0200
committerKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2013-08-23 13:09:27 +0200
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The code for distributing recordings over several video directories is now deprecated and disabled by default
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- Reverted the change from version 1.5.7 that made all logging go to LOG_ERR (thanks
to Christopher Reimer).
- Added Begin/EndSegmentTransfer() to the EPG handler interface (thanks to Jörg Wendel).
+- The code for distributing recordings over several video directories is now
+ deprecated and disabled by default.
+ You can re-enable this feature by removing the comment sign ('//') from the beginning
+ of the line
+ //#define DEPRECATED_DISTRIBUTED_VIDEODIR // Code enclosed with this macro is ...
+ in the file videodir.c. Note, though, that this can only be a temporary workaround.
+ This feature will be completely removed in one of the next developer versions.
+ Distributing the video directory over several disks was a useful feature in times
+ when disks were still relatively small, but it also caused serious problems in case
+ one of the disks failed. Nowadays hard disks come in sizes measured in terabytes,
+ and tools like "mhddfs" can be used to combine several disks to form one large volume.
+ A recommended method for a relatively safe disk setup in a VDR system is to use two
+ 1TB (or larger) disks and use them as a RAID-1 (mirrored). That way, if one disk
+ fails, you can replace it without data loss.