On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:17 +1000, Loki Davison wrote: > ext3 the best choice? Is there some easy way to convert an reiserfs > partition to an ext3 one? All my partitions, including my root > partition are reiserfs so i'm assuming that may be something to do > with my inability to record more than 2 tracks at a time in ardour > with my amd64 3000+ system and sata drives. > You'd have to copy off all the data, mkfs again, and copy it back. Do you have CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y in the mainline kernel config? ReiserFS 3.x uses it heavily. Also, I never claimed that mainline was OK on all hardware - it does work for me and several others I have talked to. It will heavily depend on the driver set. Did you do: echo 64 > /sys/block/hd*/queue/max_sectors_kb like I described on the ML and my LAC2006 paper? You could also use Ingo's latency tracer patch for the mainline kernel o debug it. Lee
