[mythtv-users] mythtv hard lockup

[David Rees]

On 12/22/06, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> David Rees <drees76 at gmail.com> says:
> > Interesting, I'll have to keep a console logged on so I can try the
> > same. Out of curiosity, what filesystem are you running on your root
> > partition? My system is using jfs...
>
> I too use JFS on the root drive, but as noted this odd behavior only
> started occurring a couple of months ago.

I wonder if it's JFS related... My system got IO-stuck again over the
weekend, I logged in and found pdflush as well as a number of other
processes stuck in the D state, but no kernel messages to indicate
why. My mythtv system is the only system I have (or administer)
running JFS. Unfortunately, I didn't try pressing Alt-SysRq-S more
than a couple times before I reset the machine. I am tempted to
migrate to ext3 now that mythtv can delete large files from ext3
gracefully.

-Dave