[mythtv-users] Skip hangs for some recordings

[Leighton Brough]

Michael Fox wrote:
>> It's a combined front/backend system so the recordings are written
>> locally. It's formatted as ext3, here's the relevant line from /etc/fstab:
>>
>> /dev/hda7       /mythtv         ext3    defaults        0       2
>>     
>
> Well thats not the issue then, you dont happen to have a failing drive
> by chance. Whats the dmesg output show (hopefully no current errors
> relating to ide drives at the bottom).
>   
The dmesg output is clean, and there's no evidence of disk failures. The 
partition is around 95% full, but I assume this pretty much normal for a 
mythtv box that's been in use for a while.

Incidentally, the recordings where skips hangs seem to stay the same - 
the problem is repeatable.

Leighton