On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Gero <geronimo013@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I've actually experienced this as well. ÂRecordings vanishing from the >> recordings list for no apparent reason. ÂIf I restart VDR, the list is >> fully recovered. ÂMy dedicated recordings harddrive is located in a >> lan fileserver, and I had always assumed it was something set wrong in >> Samba somewhere. > > That is a really interesting new aspect, which guided me to some new tests. > > I don't use samba, but nfs - and yes, it happens only when I mount a nfs- > share. And yes again - the list is fine again after a reboot Â- cause the nfs- > share will not be mounted automatically. > > So I took a closer look at the nfs share to find the reason, cause I use nfs- > shares for years and never experimented such failures before. > I found out, that this behaviour might be related to directories, that don't > contain recordings, but other files. In my case, my recording harddrive contains only VDR-created recordings. > Last time, a harddisk crashed, I had no space beside the server recording > pool, so I put a backup there. > > I tested then to mount the first subdirectory of the servers recording pool and > things work fine again - no missing recordings. > I guess it was my fault after all. I would expect VDR to just ignore any files/dirs that aren't recordings. If it's crashing due to this, that's bad behavior! > P.S. My real recording root on the vdr machine is /var/lib/video.00 - but as > I'm to lazy to enter that path, I created a link /video that points to > /var/lib/video.00 - so when I manually check recordings, I use the path > /video/xxx My setup is a bit different: /storage/sata2/recordings on /mnt/lan/recordings type none (rw,bind) /storage/sata2 is the dedicated harddrive, containing only the "recordings" dir, which is mounted directly to /mnt/lan/recordings using mount --bind as recommended by a sysadmin friend of mine. > P.P.S I found more configuration errors at skimming the logfiles. I think, I > have to do a closer check of my installation. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr