[LAU] reiser4.... has it a place for audio?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Sat Apr 12 21:17:18 EDT 2008


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:43 PM, naysayer <gateswideopen at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi crew...
>
> i have just been looking at the benchmarking stats for reiser4 and it looks
> pretty cool. i was wondering if there is there is any reason to implement
> this kind of file system in multimedia environments. i current have my
> root/system partition as reiserFS and my home partition as ext3. i find this
> to be quite efficient but perhaps if there would be an improvement to
> recording stability and speed, then perhaps it could work well with apps
> like ardour. although, reiser seems to be happiest with small files, reiser4
> claims to be more efficient than ext3.... or that could be just spin.
>

These days the choice of filesystem should make no significant
difference.  Certainly it won't matter if an -rt kernel is used.

Lee



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