[mythtv-users] Mount options for ext4 recordings partition

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 07 August 2009 18:19:44 John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Gareth
> Glaccum<gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > I know you said you know about the problems. But just in case, make sure
> > your kernel is 2.6.29.4 or newer.
> > I had a nasty bug with ext4 and older kernels, which meant that mythbackend
> > (and other processes) were spinlocked occassionally when deleting files or
> > using the FS under load.
> > F10 does not appear to be past this kernel yet. F11 appears to be OK (don't
> > know what OS you are using).
> > Gareth
> 
> This does not seem to effect every kernel. I am stuck on 2.6.27.21
> since that is the latest openvz kernel and I also have 2TB of my
> mythdata on ext4. I recently converted from using xfs for recordings
> to using ext4 for everything. I had been testing ext4 for 8 months
> before that without a single problem that I can remember.

Yep, I forget exactly when, but it was a problem introduced by one
feature addition or another somewhere around 2.6.27 or .28.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com