From 87acd119ceac72301b02105599da069d4ed32b4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:20:51 +0100 Subject: Added a note to the INSTALL file regarding multiple disk setup becoming deprecated in a future version of VDR --- INSTALL | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') 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, -- cgit v1.2.3