[LAU] Ext2 or Ext3 for Audio?

[david]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 6/25/07, David Haggett <david at haggett.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[snips]
>> Does ext3 play nice with an RT kernel, or is it the journaling that 
>> causes the
>> problems for ReiserFS
[snips]
> All in all I don't think it matters much. In general I think either is
> fine for audio. I typically use vfat for audio partitions so that I
> can easily move the 1394 drive to a Windows box without any bother.
> 
> If I was going to make the choice you suggest I'd likely go for ext2
> as requires slightly less work for the system than carrying the
> overhead of doing the ext3 stuff and I figure that I would never know
> when I'm going to run out of compute cycles. Also I believe that ext3
> keeps the extra information in a separate location on the drive from
> the data which requires extra head seeking and slows things down a bit
> at times.

Don't know about that, but a friend of mine who migrated his file server
from ext2 to ext3 reported getting 2-3 times the throughput on large
network transfers to the server. I'd think that might have some impact
on recording speed.

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