[linux-audio-user] is ext3 ok for real-time / low-latency?

[Jan "Evil Twin" Depner]

Frank,

	I think that sounds fine.  I agree with you on not trying to use
reiserfs on your / and boot partitions if for no other reason than that
it's a pain to set up.  Since your data and / system are actually on the
same disk make sure you kill syslogd before you do any recording or it
will be writing to /var/log at very inopportune moments.  Just killing
syslogd got rid of a good number of xruns for me.  Sym linking /tmp
sounds like a good idea too.

Jan

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 05:09, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Jan Evil Twin Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Evil Twin Depner wrote:
> 
> > I only use reiserfs on my data drive.  I use ext3 on my root drive.  If
> > you're doing any serious recording you need a dedicated data drive.  I
> > *really* wouldn't use reiserfs on the root drive.
> 
> This sounds like a good compromise. On my laptop, where in the future
> the real audio stuff is going on (maybe live, who knows) I have two
> partitions, one for /home (which is me and all sound stuff) one for
> the /-rest, both around 10 GB in size. Both are ext3 currently, but It
> would be very easy to change the /home-partition to reiserfs, because
> there is enough free space on / to move /home there temporarily.
> Looking a Marks fs-benchmarks, ext3 is first of all bad at disk
> writes. I don't write much outside /home, only to /tmp and I could
> symlink that over to /home/tmp or such. 
> 
> Does this all sound like a good strategy? 
> 
> Changing / to reiser would be much harder and would require
> repartitioning if I don't want to have /boot on reiser, which I
> wouldn't want to for named reasons.
> 
> ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__