[LAU] Best file system for audio?

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Monday, June 27, 2011 05:47:13 pm S. Massy wrote:
> Hello, all,
> 
> I know this topic comes up now and again. I'm about to
> create a partition for audio work and am wondering
> whether any new consensus has been reached over which is
> the best file system format for the job. What are you,
> fellows using?

Something like this should do you good:

  - For hard disk recording... use a NON-journaling
    file system like ext2.  (E.g. mounted as
    /tmp or something.)  This removes the overhead
    of updating the journal for each transaction
    to the disk.  If you have a power failure during
    a recording, you're pretty fsck'd no matter which
    way you go... so the journal won't help you.

  - For everything else... use a stable, journaling
    filesystem.  ext4 is very nice, as is ext3.
    But things like xfs, reiserfs, jfs, etc... these
    are all good choices.  I do *not* recommend
    btrfs right now.  I've encountered too many
    problems with it to recommend it as a stable fs.

I think I first encountered this idea from the ardour docs.

-gabriel