Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-19 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:37:46PM +, Steve wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: You should use oflag=direct to make it actually write the file to disk.. And now most probably the file will come from linux kernel cache. Use iflag=direct to read it actually from the disk. However, in the

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-18 Thread H. Langos
Hi Alex, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:34:59PM +, Steve wrote: Alex Betis wrote: I don't record much, so I don't worry about speed. While there's no denying that RAID5 *at best* has a write speed equivalent to about 1.3x a single disk and if you're not careful with stride/block settings

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-10 Thread H. Langos
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:46:52PM +1300, Simon Baxter wrote: What about a simple raid 1 mirror set? Ok.. short comparison, using a single disk as baseline. using 2 disks raid0: (striping) ++ double read throughput, ++ double write throughput, -- half the reliability (read: only use

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-09 Thread H. Langos
Hi Simon, On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 07:38:03AM +1300, Simon Baxter wrote: Hi I've been running logical volume management (LVMs) on my production VDR box for years, but recently had a drive failure. To be honest, in the ~20 years I've had PCs in the house, this is the first time a drive

Re: [vdr] [OT] NVidia ION mini-ITX arriving

2009-05-13 Thread H. Langos
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 07:02:16PM +0200, Martin Emrich wrote: Has anybody already spotted a street price for the different variants? Especially the one with the external PSU looks interesting... Try http://www.preisroboter.de/search.php?search=ZOTAC+ION cheers -henrik

Re: [vdr] Incorrect wakeup time

2009-04-22 Thread H. Langos
Hi Falk, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:43:07PM +0200, Falk Spitzberg wrote: Hello, while playing with ACPI wakeup, i noticed that VDR always sets a wakeuptime of now+30 minutes, when the timeframe from 'now' to 'begin of next recording' is less than 30 Minutes. Is that intended behaviour?

Re: [vdr] Where do you live and what kind of broadcast do you receive?

2009-03-21 Thread H. Langos
Country: Germany (Berlin) Transmission: DVB-T Encoding: MPEG-2 SD (27 stations) Receivers: - MSI digiVox mini II rev.3 (af9015 driver) - Fujitsu-Siemens DVB-T Mobile TV Tuner (vp7045) (and still looking for a receider with lower power consumption) -henrik