[mythtv] Ringbuffer: fsync thread may equal corruption
John Patrick Poet
john at BlueSkyTours.com
Mon Dec 20 07:01:33 UTC 2004
John Patrick Poet wrote:
>
> Since I started using a version of ThreadedFileWriter with a separate
> thread for doing fsyncs, I have had some of my shows end up with
> corruption. I cannot *make* it happen, and cannot prove that the
> separate fsync thread is the cause, but it is the only cause I can
> think of.
>
> John
Scratch that. I went back to using a version of ThreadedFileWriter
which does not use a separate thread for fsync. I still had a file get
corrupt about 45 minutes in.
That time frame is about right for when this problem first started to
appear.
About that time I also switched the hdtvrecorder ringbuffer thread to
read directly from the ringbuffer, instead of using an intermediary
buffer -- but switching that back also did not solve the problem.
That was also about the time that the new HD3000-HD2000-CD-rev4 driver
came out, but switching back to rev3 also does not solve the problem.
I have not tried going back to v37 of Daniel's hdtvrecorder patch, but I
find it very hard to believe that v38 could be the cause.
It is very weird. A show can become corrupt within minutes of it
starting, or not until it is over 2 hours into it, or not at all. Most
of the time, once a show is corrupt, it continues to be corrupt until
the recording is over. Sometimes, however, it will recover after
several minutes and be okay until the end.
I cannot figure out the cause.
John
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