[mythtv-users] Mount options for ext4 recordings partition

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Sat Aug 8 03:59:59 UTC 2009


On Friday 07 August 2009 18:12:27 Gareth Glaccum wrote:
> I know you said you know about the problems. But just in case, make sure 
> your kernel is 2.6.29.4 or newer.
> I had a nasty bug with ext4 and older kernels, which meant that mythbackend 
> (and other processes) were spinlocked occassionally when deleting files or 
> using the FS under load.
> F10 does not appear to be past this kernel yet.

Doesn't need to be. The ext4 fixes were backported. Red Hat has, you
know, like, real kernel developers who actually work on this stuff
upstream as well as putting it into its community distro. ;)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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