I am using xfs on my fedora/ccrma box (kernel from atrpms), but I haven't got down to any audio work yet - when i do I'll report my results. On Apr 26, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Jan Depner wrote: > I would be willing to bet that XFS might be even better than reiserfs > but I have no data on that. Mark Knecht documented the responses of > the > different filesystems using Benno Senoner's Latency Test program. I > have the results on my site at: > > http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/Arcana.html > > > My own (totally unscientific) results are also commented on there. > > > Jan > > > On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:40, Maarten de Boer wrote: >>> If you're going to rebuild use ext3 instead of ext2 for the root >>> partition. It's journalled. Use Reiserfs for the data partition. >>> The >> >> What is the reason for using two different filesystems here? Is >> reiserfs >> more suitable for (audio) data? >> >> Personally, I am using xfs (also journalled) for all workstations I >> install, after having used it successfully on a heavy duty fileserver >> for more than 2 years. It never gave me any problems, and I have done >> some nasty tests. >> >> Now, I have never run Ardour - on top of my TODO list for a looong >> time >> :-), so I can't say how Ardour and xfs play together, but I'd be >> surprised >> if there are any problems. Anyway, I would be very much interested to >> hear >> if others are using xfs, and how it behaves under heavy multitrack >> audio >> IO. >> >> Ah, and xfs has a special "realtime" mode. From the kernel >> configuration: >> >> If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems >> which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a >> separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. The >> realtime subvolume is designed to provide very deterministic >> data rates suitable for media streaming applications. >> >> which sounds very interesting. BUT!: >> >> This feature is unsupported at this time, is not yet fully >> functional, and may cause serious problems. >> >> Serious problems... Hmm, looking at Aaron's mail, he already got >> enough serious problems even without experimental xfs features... >> >> xfs is in kernel 2.6.x, and has been included in 2.4.25 as well. >> (before that, sgi provides patches) >> >> maarten >
