[mythtv-users] An SSD for Backend OS / Database Drives?

Mark Lord mythtv at rtr.ca
Thu Mar 15 22:33:41 UTC 2012


On 12-03-14 10:50 PM, Andre wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2012, at 03:13, Douglas Peale wrote:
>> Cons: Ubuntu does not boot reliably with a SSD. About one in 5 boots hangs dumping me into busybox, and I must type exit to
>> continue the boot. This is a problem because I let my system shut down when idle.
> 
> Ah yes, forgot to mention this, in my defence I very rarely reboot. Ubuntu has some race problems on booting, I found that I needed to put all the recording drive mounts in to rc.local rather than fstab then it booted reliably, I also have to remember not to log in straight away or myth-backend won't be running yet as my tuner cards take a while to initialise.


Yeah, both the Ubuntu initramfs images and their init/upstart scripts
have numerous race conditions.

Even without the SSD I can sometimes get my system here to fail at boot,
but with the SSD it was a regular occurance until I rewrote many of the scripts.

Cheers


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