29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
5:27 a.m.
On Thursday 28 June 2007 09:43, Arnold Krille wrote:
Thanks all for your advice. I will be formatting the new disk as ext3
Of course, if
you don't WRITE, your ability to RECORD is going to be
rather limited. Which was what the original poster needed. ;-);-)
But I don't think the journal has a big impact on recording audio: The
journal is typically 30MB big (thats why there is so few /boot with ext3, a
10MB partition doesn't have room for the journal alone) and it records
cached content and/or(?) file-status information. In a typical ardour
session most (all?) files are big chunks, so doing recordings means lots of
content (to much for caching) and very few file-status changes. So in the
first case the journal gets filed up very soon and the data written to disk
directly and in the second case there is very little to write to the
journal...
And: ext2 is afaik not more dangerous than ext3, it just takes _much_
longer to check and repair (1h with ext2 equals 2min with ext3)...
And: there are generally two kinds of people: those who love reiserfs and
those who lost data in a non-recoverable way (sometimes even destroying the
whole fs) with reiserfs. I belong to the later group...
... and as I have loads of space on the new disk to shuffle things around, I
will move all my data to an ext3 partition and reformat my existing (faster
IDE) disk to hold the OS and other seldom changed partitions.
--
David Haggett