[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase during recording screws up recordings.

Rob Smith kormoc at mythtv.org
Tue Apr 5 04:11:35 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks. I'm using Ubuntu though so I will have to do some improvising. It is unlikely I'll be able to use your changes directly.
> I think the most important is to get mysql running at idle IO class. As far as I can tell, -c 2 -n 0 is the default for processes.

This will corrupt recordings. We write to the seek table and if the
database stalls, you'll have a corrupt seek table, corrupt files, or
both. This is a horrible idea.


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