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
