Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > 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... > Just do it, you got my vote for it :-) (Would be a great idea for a more stable 1.4 Version) -- Helmut Auer, helmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
