Re: Linux 2.6.29

Mark Lord
2009-03-24T18:21:28Z

Theodore Tso wrote:
> So the question is how quickly can you *dirty* 1.6GB of memory?
..

MythTV: rm /some/really/huge/video/file ; sync
## disk light stays on for several minutes..

Note quite the same thing, I suppose, but it does break
the shutdown scripts of every major Linux distribution.

Simple solution for MythTV is what people already do: use xfs instead.