[linux-audio-user] xruns: file system ext3 --> reiserfs?

[Mark Knecht]

> I'm using reiserfs as a workaround (I'd prefer to have any journalling on
my larger filesystems than none at all), although from what I've read
reiserfs might be better suited to audio applications anyway.
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I guess this also has to do with the way you've built a specific machine. In
my case, I place all of my audio on a completely separate 1394 hard drive,
and that 1394 drive is reiserfs. I make backups of the audio data to an
older 1394 drive that's FAT32, which allows me to easily move audio to my
Windows platform (where I do most of my work) without having to deal with
Samba or ftp. (How do others move data between Windows and Linux?)

My system disk is ext3 simply because it's more tested than reiserfs, so
possibly more reliable. When I'm doing audio work, to the best of my
knowledge, there are no transactions taking place between the computer and
the ext3 drive anyway. (i.e. - I see activity lights on my 1394 reiserfs
drive, but none on my internal EIDE ext3 drive.)

Now that I'm starting to use Gentoo, I can more easily try out XFS on my
1394 audio drive which should be better for large file sizes.

I feel like this setup is giving me pretty much the best of all
capabilities, but I'm a newbie in Linux and certainly open to more ideas.

I'm not sure journaling is even working in my case as fsck's are still
pretty slow the couple of times that has happened.

- Mark