[mythtv-users] Excessive disk usage in remotecache on Raspberry Pi

Peter Bennett cats22 at comcast.net
Sat Dec 3 15:14:24 UTC 2016


On 12/03/2016 10:00 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 12/03/2016 06:45 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
>> One of the first things I turn off on systems that use flash-based
>> storage is the access times of files and directories (the
>> noatime,nodiratime mount options), in order to cut down on unnecessary
>> wear. There's lots of evidence on the intertubes that I'm not alone in
>> doing that.
>>
>> Could I therefore suggest basing this on the file creation timestamp
>> instead?
> That is an interesting point. I will have to take account of file
> systems that do not track file access as well as those cases where it is
> turned off. Also I am not sure whether things like the scanning of files
> that is done by nautilus to create thumbnails will update the access
> time. Altogether I think that file access time may not be the best way
> to go. I can create an application list of times when files were
> accessed by the application or else just use the modification time as
> you suggest.
>
> Peter
>
> _______________________________________________
I took a look at the raspberry Pi mount of the SD card and it is by
default already mounted as noatime.
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)

Peter


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