Thema: USB stick at fault for glitchy timeshift?

Sorry about that, s3n0. That was not due to privacy concerns at all. I said they were just excerpts of log files, and I know it's just the first couple of seconds after rebooting the GUI, as I figured it was pointless and irrelevant to make the post even longer by sharing all of it since this "skipping issue" would in fact happen in the very first second: 50 flashes briefly and then it goes straight to 99.

But I mean, I only started noticing this because of that freezing issue, I don't care at all about what the box does at boot-up as, after all the box works fine and the boot speed is top notch regardless. I was just wondering if it might be a sign of a flash drive issue, that's all. Anyway, like I said yesterday, it seems to me that the skipping has something to do with permanent timeshift. In fact, I played around with it some more yesterday and the box definitely boots up normally after disabling permanent timeshift or making sure timeshift is stopped before rebooting.

Regardless, what I really cared about was getting rid of those rare freezing issues on a handful of channels, and I have to say Papi2000 is definitely on to something as I've never seen that with the 64GB stick. I'm not saying this larger stick isn't super fast either, but it's pretty clear it gets overwhelmed at times on some channels, perhaps as a result of bitrate spikes or something like that. Of course, you may have to do al lot of timeshifting to run into or even notice this problem, or who knows, maybe it's just this particular huge stick of mine that has speed issues and/or is just not 100 percent cut out for timeshift purposes in e2. So, I'm just gonna stick with the smaller version which has still plenty of storage to go around. Thanks guys for your help and insight.

Yeah, the buffer size limit is already set to 2 hours, and yep, no errors on the USB sticks.

Anyway, take a look at these two log excerpts. As I said, I shut down a power strip at night, so the logs start at 1 AM when I turn it back on in the morning before picking up the current time after boot-up is complete. I've attached the files as the post came out too long. Log #1 is from yesterday when the boot-up process gradually and properly built up to 99. It's the full excerpt, basically up to the point when boot-up ends, the time adjustment goes down, and I switch channels.

Log #2 is from this morning when instead the boot-up process again skipped past 50 and straight to 99. Regardless, boot-up still takes the same amount of time.

So, do you see anything at all that goes down differently that would explain that jump forward?

@Papi2000 & @s3n0, did you guys happen to take a quick look at those logs? Anything out of the ordinary in there, and would you say it's odd for the box to boot up this way?

Meanwhile, I've done away with the 128GB stick and I'm back on the 64GB drive with no timeshift freezing issues whatsoever. After all, it might have just been a faulty unit, as I was still able to return it, and even formatting it into FAT32 before shipping it out took quite a bit of time.