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

Kjetil S. Matheussen k.s.matheussen at notam02.no
Sun Apr 13 12:24:14 EDT 2008


"Lee Revell":
> 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.
> 

Well, doesn't reiserfs use quite a lot more cpu than ext3? I think
that may make a significant difference... 



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