[linux-audio-user] Re: Partitioning for audio

[Loki Davison]

On 3/22/06, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/22/06, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan <mestelan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I may be so bold as to add a question :
> > what filesystem should the recording disk use ?
>
> IMHO ext3fs is the most stable and RT-ready. I don't think Ingo
> patches ReiserFS or XFS in his -rt series.
>
> From my experience, XFS is also good (but looses latest data on
> power/kernel failures).
>
> Some tips on tuning ext3/2 performance are here
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dmitry.
>

I have all my drives as reiserfs... could this be a reason that RT
doesn't work on this machine? I was blaming it on x86_64.

Loki