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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 |