Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > 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 > ... That sounds good and I can improve a little bit my C(++) knowledge... Thanks Manfred -- ------- Manfred Schmidt-Voigt ------- ----- www.mannitec.de ----- ------- mailto:manfred.schmidt-voigt@xxxxxxxxxxx ------- _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
