#10045 HIGH 1.5-sof: XO-1.5 Record audio/video are out of sync with each other

[James Cameron]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:14:53PM -0400, John Watlington wrote:
> Writes in UNIX are typically asynchronous --- get the data into a memory
> buffer and the program can continue along its merry way.
> I strongly suspect that writes through the SD system are forced to wait
> for the media to complete the write.

My tests show that our kernel is doing this for USB and SD, on ext2,
ext3, ext4, vfat, and raw access to the block device (open ... write ...
write ... close).  It isn't doing it for writes to tmpfs or null.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/