Alan Cox wrote: > > > Andrew.Stevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > - Put bluntly: ext2 is not good for video capture > > > > Mount the partition with the synchronous option. > > uggh. For 2.2 use O_SYNC so you just slow down the video writer thread and > stream the I/O, for 2.4 make use of O_DIRECT to raw device if possible for > even better behaviour > What about the option of mmap'ing windows into the output file? Would the setup overhead be worth it? The hope would be that data could go from the video input driver to the output file system while minimizing the number of copies. Jim Buzbee
