[LAU] Best file system for audio?

[Christopher Cherrett]

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Subject: Re: [LAU] Best file system for audio?
From: Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd at gmail.com>
To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org, lists at wolfdream.ca
Date: 06/28/2011 05:40 PM
> 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.
What type of performance hit does journalized file systems take?

Does a non-journalized file system give you less latency?
>   - 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
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