[vdr] Re: Recordings not showing on FAT partitions (Was: A/V sync...)

["Christian Jacobsen" <christian.jacobsen@stageholding.de>]

Hallo Jakko, Hello List,

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Christian Jacobsen wrote:
> >> Another thing. I started recording with a timer and at the time I
> >wanted to
> >> start watching the recording did not show up in the recordings list.
> >After
> >> restarting VDR (during commercials) the recording showed up. At the
> >moment I
> >> am using FAT for recordings (might change as I am about to
> install a new
> >> disc) could it be that ?
> >> Anyone had that too recently ?
>
>   Yes, all the time when I was using FAT/VFAT partition for my /video.
> This might be a problem in glibc seekdir, and there is a kernel patch to
> avoid the problem by Trond Myklebust.  I have not tried this as I added
> more disk space as /video0/ with reiserfs and the FAT partition is my
> /video1/, and the bug does no harm there.
>
> http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/
> http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.20/
> http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.20/linux-2.4.20-05-seekdir.dif
>
> "   A patch that papers over a glibc bug. In glibc-2.2 and above, they use
> the new getdents64() syscall even for the 32-bit readdir. As a result,
> they have problems coping with the unsigned 64-bit d_off values that may
> get returned by some NFSv3 servers.
>
>     If you are seeing problems involving files that mysteriously disappear
> from your directory listings, then please consider applying this patch.
>
>     NOTE: You might still have to set the '32bitclients' export option on
> some IRIX servers. "

You are right, 2 weeks ago I changed my "/video" from FAT to reiserfs and
the problem disappeared :)
I just wanted to be sure that it was solved before posting ;)

Thanks :)

Greetings
Christian



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