From a0f63d40c6df78e6e1b80056fc64a3f33e658350 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:09:27 +0200 Subject: The code for distributing recordings over several video directories is now deprecated and disabled by default --- HISTORY | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'HISTORY') diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 3c8a3643..f2f16392 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -7885,3 +7885,17 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History - 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. -- cgit v1.2.3