[LAU] Ext3 or JFS (or other) for linux audio?

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:22:52PM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
> 2009/9/7 Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com>
> 
> > JFS is low-latency, low-power, and all-around performer. As such, it suits
> > a mobile platform with 5400RPM disks.
> >
> 
> Oops, forgot to continue:
> 
> For speedier and larger disks, ext3/4. Both XFS and ReiserFS have their
> cons. Google and you'll land upon a pretty old review, but JFS and EXT3 come
> up ahead of the others.


Hmm. Well the drive I put into my Core2Duo 2.33Ghz laptop is faster than 5400RPM, but it is also PATA. And it's a single partition and so EXT3 it is. I don't intend to reformat it anytime soon.

The disk I'm discussing formatting is an external WD "MyBook" 1TB drive. It will be connected via ESATA to a headless 64-bit 1.2Ghz ITX box, or via FireWire to the laptop. So I guess the filesystem might not be the bottlenack anyway.

Keeping it simple: tried and true EXT3.

-ken