Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Mark Lord]

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.
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