[mythtv-users] Software RAID and ionice
David Rees
drees76 at gmail.com
Thu May 24 08:13:01 UTC 2007
On 5/23/07, Brian Walter <blwalter at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Rees wrote:
> > On 5/22/07, Richard Freeman <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> > This is one reason I wish mythtv didn't sync all writes to disk and
> > instead let the OS handle it on it's own since then the OS could queue
> > up the write and and write out the data when it can.
>
> This is true? mythtv syncs the disk after every write? That *does*
> explain a lot of behavior....
Sorry, I didn't mean sync (the whole disk) but flush (the file it's
writing). I haven't actually confirmed this in the source, just going
from what someone said a long time ago.
-Dave
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