On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:43 +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > On 5/23/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Reiserfs is a poor choice of filesystem for low latency. > > > > Didn't know that. Will I be alright if I have my audio files on ext3 > but the OS on reiserfs? No, it makes no difference what files are where if there's IO going on - it can still disable preemption for a long time. It's best to have everything on ext3. This has the advantage that ext3 is actively developed and improved while reiser3 is in maintenance mode. Lee