29 Sep
2004
29 Sep
'04
2:58 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 12:24, R Parker wrote:
I'm running an ICP hardware raid controler with
raid
level 5 and reiserfs. In addition to that, I run an
rsync mirror to an IDE drive. I'm considering
switching from raid 5 to 0 because I do see read
problems and maybe some of the xruns occur during
write. The read problems appear with Ardour while
doing REW or F/FWD seeks and the messages are
something about disk read access error.
The problem is most likely reiserfs. Ext3 is better for low latency
systems.
If you are using 2.4, then maybe you should try a 2.6 + VP kernel. It's
pretty stable these days, but I still recommend doing this on a spare
box if you have any serious work to do.
Lee