[mythtv-users] Allowing hard drive to spin down in .19 with live tv

[Bryan Halter]

I currently run a mini-ITX diskless frontend, it boots off a NFS root
and mounts anything it needs through NFS.  The case fan is still a bit
loud but it is much quieter than when there was an actual drive in there.

Paul Roberts wrote:
> Greg Farrell wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I'm using .18 and it's great. However I wanted to do some work
>> to get the hard-drive to spin down and stay down unless I was recording
>> a show. This is because it's a mini-itx pc in a very small case so the
>> hard-drive is the loudest part of it and also probably the hottest (3
>> 1/2 inch hd).
>>
>> The plan was to use a 512mb ram disk as my live tv ring buffer, so that
>> while watching tv the hard drive could spin down without causing
>> problems. Either that or a usb flash key with jffs (to remove
>> file-system hot-spots).
>>
>> With the removal of the live tv buffer in .19 can anyone give me some
>> suggestions on how I can still watch live tv with the hard drive spun
>> down? I really don't want a second backend system elsewhere.
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is trying to use a journaling file-system
>> and see if I can up the commit interval to something huge like 500megs.
>> I don't know if this is possible, and unfortunately I can't find any
>> commit interval documentation for jfs which is what my media partition
>> is configured with.
>>
>> If another fs could support this I'd be willing to do a backup and
>> format.
>>
>> I really want to get rid of what noise there is from the hard drive
>> where possible. It breaks the illusion of a cool little media device as
>> it sounds like a pc.
>>
>>  thanks a lot,
>>     Greg
>>
>>
>>
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> If you have another computer you could just try moving the hard drive to 
> that one, and then accessing it as a NFS drive.  I've read about a lot 
> of people using diskless systems for MythTV.
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