[linux-audio-user] filesystem performance

[Rick Taylor]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 07:49:46 -0400
LinuxMedia <linuxmedia4 at netscape.net> wrote:

 I've used all of these with no problems.

http://aurora.zemris.fer.hr/filesystems/

 If it's a real problem... try setting up an ext2 partition and using it as a
 working drive. If it's still a problem... I'd look to something other than
 the filesystem. Maybe hdparm?

> Greetings,
> 
> I remember some talk a while ago about different filesystems and their 
> performance. All my partitions are formatted as reiserfs and I get 
> terrible performance. I've done tons of tests, bought a 7200 RPM drive, 
> bought more ram, worked with buffer sizes... So I'm assuming that I need 
> to format my drive as another filesystem.
> 
> I also put the following entry in fstab:
> 
> none      /tmp        tmpfs     defaults      0 0
> 
> I understood this as putting /tmp in ram? I'm getting such poor 
> performance that I actually move my sound files in /tmp and work out of 
> it while doing multitracking.
> 
> Could anyone tell Me what the conclusion was about what is the best 
> filesystem for these kinds of heavy recording loads?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rocco
> 
>