[mythtv-users] Fedora 11 High Disk Activity

[Mache Creeger]

I wanted to share a story with a happy ending.

I did a fresh install of a myth client with Fedora 11 and when I was 
all done noticed the disk light stayed constantly on. Fearing that I 
would burn out the client's laptop drive, I went looking for the 
source of the problem. Fedora 11 installs with ext4 as its default 
for file partitions and I had chosen to avoid being an ext4 guinea 
pig and instead went with tried and true ext3.

With my choice of ext3, I inadvertently engaged Fedora 11's kjournald 
daemon that journals every ext3 disk access. The stock mythbackend 
service launches with logging turned on and eliminating the logging 
option from the command line in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend file 
solved the problem.

-- Mache