On 12/12/05, Mike Grusin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, I like blinky lights. ;) My probably naive concern is that hopefully > Myth (and the underlying distro) would minimize disk access to maximize the > lifetime of the drive(s) (I do know that Linux configuration is my > responsibility ;). Other than that, I'm just curiuous how Myth works.
Well the good news is that drive failure rates are only loosely associated with useage, and mostly from thrashing type of useage (rapid head excursions over the full surface.) Studies I've read suggest that even extremely frequent writes to the same sectors do not impair drive life. Still its odd that FrontEnd should impose such a load, since (unless you are watching tv) it as nothing to do. Tail your FrontEnd log and see what its writing, and then decide if you need a frontend log at all. especially when you -- ----------JSA--------- _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
