[mythtv-users] Howto prevent MythTV flushing/Syncing disk writes (LiveTV/Recordings) [ SOLVED ]

[Albert Graham]

Hi Asher,

I did post a link to this way back in this thread, problem is, it still 
very unstable, but I do very much like the idea for lots of apps, 
specifically intensive database apps.

Albert.


Asher wrote:
> Not to take this totally OT, but this was just posted on /.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/272534/
>
> I'm not sure that this completely address your concerns as it is still
> flushing data to disk, but it could go hand in hand with what you
> want.  Write the data to a ramdisk and then sync the ramdisk with a
> HD, if you wait for a long period between the syncs then it would be
> good for things like live tv if you have a large enough ramdrive.  The
> next logical step would be to have a hybrid ram/hd drive.  The system
> would have a partition the size of the HD but when you were writing
> you would write to the ramdrive which would periodically sync with the
> HD.
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