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

[david]

Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.

I switched from ReiserFS to EXT3 quite awhile ago, and can't say that 
one is any faster than the other. A friend of mine switched from EXT2 to 
EXT3 on his server and reported a very large speed improvement, but he 
doesn't do audio work.

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