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

[Allan Stirling]

Albert Graham wrote:
> Allan Stirling wrote:
>> Albert Graham wrote:
>>   
>>> When reviewing the source I could see why things are done the way they 
>>> are, 
>>>     
>> You appear to be missing one reason.
>>
>> When a slave backend is NFS mounted, as far as I understand
>> it, a recording won't appear on the server (and thus other
>> frontends) until it's synced.
>>
>> This means that mounted (non-streaming) live TV would not
>> work very well, which as far as I can tell was the original
>> intent of this piece of code.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Allan.
>>   
> Hi Allan,
> 
> This a good point, in my case I only have 1 master backend and 1 
> frontend (ATM) however, a slave backend would write it's files via 
> normal NFS on the master backend and not via the master backend's 
> "ThreadedFileWriter" function, in other words the slave backend, so my 
> "patch" would only be enabled on the master backend where the actual 
> disk writes occur, i.e. it would not apply to slaves.

How? Slaves can either be network mounted or have local
storage. How do you differentiate between the two?

Anyway, this is all a moot point until someone makes up a
patch with either approach. Once again, it's an issue I
currently don't care enough about to do that, unfortunately.

Cheers,

Allan.