25 Jun
2007
25 Jun
'07
8:12 p.m.
On 25 June 2007 at 22:17, David Haggett <david(a)haggett.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Just ordered a 320G sata hard disk to replace my
increasingly
noisy 40G IDE disk (which is currently formatted with
ReiserFS). I think I've read (here) that ReiserFS isn't the
best filesystem for audio work, but I would like to retain
journaling if possible.
Does ext3 play nice with an RT kernel, or is it the journaling
that causes the problems for ReiserFS
Also should I plan to convert existing partitions on another
disk (my music library) to ext3, or is it only the partitions
actively used in audio work that matter?
Many thanks in advance.
I can't answer your question with certainty or with much data
to back up my viewpoint. All I can say is that I've been doing
audio work for a couple of years now on a 2GHz Celeron machine
with 1GB of RAM and 2 ext3 partitions (/ and /home) on my ATA100
drive. My audio data is in /home and my programs are for the
most part in /. I've had really good luck. I've only seen one
case where the disk couldn't keep up, and that was when I was
trying to play 70 tracks of 16-bit 44.1kHz data simultaneously.
Once enough of the data was cached, then ardour actually *did*
play all that. But, it took 3-5 false starts to get enough
cached.
There are probably better ways to achieve more performance.
But, things work for me.
Good luck...
--
Kevin
"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its
continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the
computer hardware industry...", Henry Petroski [can you say "Windows"?]