On Wed September 29 2004 10:41, Lee Revell wrote: > 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. Is there a preferred ext3 mode (i.e. writeback, ordered, etc.) for low latency systems? Thanks, Curtis