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-rw-r--r--INSTALL2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index e712e37d..ad4d470c 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4600,3 +4600,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
changes to timer parameters before the actual recording starts (inspired by
Christian Wieninger's "epgsearch" plugin).
- Added format check to syslog_with_tid().
+- Updated the INSTALL file's section about non-VDR files in the video directory
+ (since version 1.3.38 disk access is done in a separate thread, so the watchdog
+ timer won't hit).
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a12989c8..d4ac230d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ with the name of the basic directory when running 'vdr':
vdr -v /video0
Note that you should not copy any non-VDR files into the /videoX directories,
-since this might cause the watchdog timer to expire when VDR cleans up those
+since this might cause a lot of unnecessary disk access when VDR cleans up those
directories and there is a large number of files and/or subdirectories in
there.