[LAU] Ext2 or Ext3 for Audio?

David Haggett david at haggett.demon.co.uk
Mon Jun 25 17:17:41 EDT 2007


Just ordered a 320G sata hard disk to replace my increasingly noisy 40G IDE 
disk (which is currently formatted with ReiserFS).  I think I've read (here) 
that ReiserFS isn't the best filesystem for audio work, but I would like to 
retain journaling if possible.

Does ext3 play nice with an RT kernel, or is it the journaling that causes the 
problems for ReiserFS

Also should I plan to convert existing partitions on another disk (my music 
library) to ext3, or is it only the partitions actively used in audio work 
that matter?

Many thanks in advance.
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David Haggett




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