On 04/14/08 00:26, Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> On 03/23/08 10:46, Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: >>> Manfred Schmidt-Voigt schrieb: >>>> Hello List, >>>> >>>> I have a diskless VDR machine in my livingroom (so its very quit). >>>> My /video is mounted by nfs from a Servermachine under the roof. On >>>> that server I have set a groupquota for that /video directory to >>>> save some place for other applikations on that filesystem (raid 5 - >>>> 4x400G). >>>> ... >>>> But the VDR Software doesn't recognize that. It does not start to >>>> mark old recording for removing. In the menu overview it show still >>>> some hours free space util the end of the complete filesystem. >>>> >>>> Now my question: Do I have to configure something special in VDR >>>> that it recognizes the Quota setting of that directory or have I to >>>> use userquota for the user of VDR (in my case it is root but if it >>>> is the only solution I could change it to a regular user, but only >>>> if it helps for my problem)? >>>>... >>> No, VDR is not able to follow Quota. It is looking only for the >>> standard size parameters of the filesystem... ;-( >>> >>> So I had to help myself. The outcome is a patch/hack for my current >>> VDR Version 1.4.5. But it should be easy to apopt it also to newer >>> versions. I have glued it together out of several GOOGLE sniplets. >>> Maybe somebody can look over this patch who has more ability to code >>> this according real C++ styles. I'm not used to progamm in C++. But >>> for this little patch it was sufficient. >>>... >> Sorry, but this is really too much to change for implementing quota >> handling. >> ... > I have changed the patch a little bit because there was a logical fault > in it. But now it's for vdr-1.6.0. I have not tested the xfs part > because currently I use only ext3 or nfs. So this should be tested maybe > by somebody else or if you would like to implement such a logic into vdr > leave it out or comment it out or do it your own way. The problem here > is that by each kind of check of the different filesystems you receive > different numberunits of something what is called a block. It seems so > that all the people, which implements the quotalogic for the different > filesystems, had a different thought what a block should look like... > > Manfred I'll probably make a plugin interface for this. Then you can implement this outside of the core VDR code. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
