On 25 June 2007 at 22:17, David Haggett <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just ordered a 320G sata hard disk to replace my increasingly > noisy 40G IDE disk (which is currently formatted with > ReiserFS). I think I've read (here) that ReiserFS isn't the > best filesystem for audio work, but I would like to retain > journaling if possible. > > Does ext3 play nice with an RT kernel, or is it the journaling > that causes the problems for ReiserFS > > Also should I plan to convert existing partitions on another > disk (my music library) to ext3, or is it only the partitions > actively used in audio work that matter? > > Many thanks in advance. I can't answer your question with certainty or with much data to back up my viewpoint. All I can say is that I've been doing audio work for a couple of years now on a 2GHz Celeron machine with 1GB of RAM and 2 ext3 partitions (/ and /home) on my ATA100 drive. My audio data is in /home and my programs are for the most part in /. I've had really good luck. I've only seen one case where the disk couldn't keep up, and that was when I was trying to play 70 tracks of 16-bit 44.1kHz data simultaneously. Once enough of the data was cached, then ardour actually *did* play all that. But, it took 3-5 false starts to get enough cached. There are probably better ways to achieve more performance. But, things work for me. Good luck... -- Kevin "The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry...", Henry Petroski [can you say "Windows"?] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
