On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Gero geronimo013@gmx.de wrote:
I've actually experienced this as well. Recordings vanishing from the recordings list for no apparent reason. If I restart VDR, the list is fully recovered. My 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 - 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.