[mythtv-users] IOBOUND errors after kernel upgrade from 2.6.31 to 2.6.32

[Tom Dexter]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday I did various updates on my Gentoo frontend/backend systems.
>  Once of them was an upgrade from the 2.6.31 kernel to
> 2.6.32...specifically sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 to
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r7.
>
> I noticed a few skips in some recorded programs last night, like there
> were small pieces missing.  I discovered that over the two nights
> since that upgrade I've gotten several IOBOUND errors while recording.
>  If I count just the "IOBOUND begin" messages I see 19 of them.
>
> I just unzipped all my old logs and can see that prior to that (all
> the way back to February) I've had non at all.  There wasn't much of
> anything else involved in the upgrade that I would expect to cause
> those.  I've rebooted the backend to the 2.6.31 kernel and will see
> how it goes tonight (I have a lot of recordings scheduled).  That
> should tell me for sure whether or not the kernel is the issue.
>
> Is anyone aware of any new kernel settings that might affect
> this...scheduler changes etc??
>
> Thanks.
> Tom
>

I forgot to mention...I'm using EXT4 on my recording drive.  I
converted from EXT3 at the beginning of March and that's been working
fine.  Also, that's on an LVM2 volume.

Tom