On Sunday 12 December 2004 12:42 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:57:37PM -0700, John Patrick Poet wrote: > > As Isaac suggested, this patch moves the fdatasync(fd) call to it's own > > thread. The means that the ThreadedFileWriter does not have to wait for > > that call to return before processing data. > > What is the need to force a sync anyway?
Kernel tends to store up unsynced writes for a while and then decide to commit them to disk all at once without it, which can cause a nice little cascading hiccup in the recording. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
