On Thursday 28 June 2007 09:43, Arnold Krille wrote: > > Of course, if you don't WRITE, your ability to RECORD is going to be > > rather limited. Which was what the original poster needed. ;-);-) > > But I don't think the journal has a big impact on recording audio: The > journal is typically 30MB big (thats why there is so few /boot with ext3, a > 10MB partition doesn't have room for the journal alone) and it records > cached content and/or(?) file-status information. In a typical ardour > session most (all?) files are big chunks, so doing recordings means lots of > content (to much for caching) and very few file-status changes. So in the > first case the journal gets filed up very soon and the data written to disk > directly and in the second case there is very little to write to the > journal... Thanks all for your advice. I will be formatting the new disk as ext3 > > And: ext2 is afaik not more dangerous than ext3, it just takes _much_ > longer to check and repair (1h with ext2 equals 2min with ext3)... > > And: there are generally two kinds of people: those who love reiserfs and > those who lost data in a non-recoverable way (sometimes even destroying the > whole fs) with reiserfs. I belong to the later group... ... and as I have loads of space on the new disk to shuffle things around, I will move all my data to an ext3 partition and reformat my existing (faster IDE) disk to hold the OS and other seldom changed partitions. -- David Haggett _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
