peter.dittmann@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I use a system with 3 harddrives. > On a recent system cleanup I moved some serial recordings completely to one drive (e.g. /video1/stargate) and symlinked the directory on /video0 for vdr to find the recordings. > Now I have made a new recording to this directory. > VDR now decided to start the 001.vdr right on the same physical drive with the result of killing the file in the process. > > The problem seems to be that vdr tries to create a symlink /video0/stargate/.../001.vdr pointing to the real file. > As /video0/stargate is in reality /video1/stargate vdr can't create the real 001.vdr because a file with this name already exists. > > A good idea may be that vdr in this case would retry creating 001.vdr on the next available /videoX. to avoid this collission. An even better idea (IMHO) would be to drop that whole video directory symlinking stuff altogether and say "If you want a large disk, use something like RAID or whatever". I was never a friend of this linking, and regret the day I agreed to implement it... Klaus
