[mythtv] ringbuffer.cpp

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 15 February 2014 09:33, Jonas Arndt <jonas.arndt at thearndtfamily.com> wrote:

> So digging further I discovered that the ThreadedFileWriter::Sync(void) is
> calling fdatasync. This is called by the RingBuffer::Sync(void), which used
> to be called by the NuppelVideoRecorder in the WriteVideo function. Except
> that it is commented out. Looking at git I can't see when (too old). I found
> this entry in the mailing list though about a noisy hard drive
> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2003-June/010629.html

No, that's not the way it works...

There is a sync thread started by the ThreadedFileWriter instance,
this thread calls sync every second.