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

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Mar 18 18:00:19 UTC 2008


On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Albert Graham wrote:
> My point with my question is that I think MythTV is "going out of it's
> way to bypass the write cache" and secure the data to disk!

IIRC this is because large, chunked writes were causing video skipping  
on some systems.  Smaller writes tie up the bus for less time.  I  
could be wrong about that, but I think I read it somewhere on the list.


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