On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Justin Smith wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Kjetil S. Matheussen < > k.s.matheussen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > "Lee Revell": > > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:43 PM, naysayer <gateswideopen@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > hi crew... > > > > > > > > i have just been looking at the benchmarking stats for reiser4 and it > > looks > > > > pretty cool. i was wondering if there is there is any reason to > > implement > > > > this kind of file system in multimedia environments. i current have my > > > > root/system partition as reiserFS and my home partition as ext3. i > > find this > > > > to be quite efficient but perhaps if there would be an improvement to > > > > recording stability and speed, then perhaps it could work well with > > apps > > > > like ardour. although, reiser seems to be happiest with small files, > > reiser4 > > > > claims to be more efficient than ext3.... or that could be just spin. > > > > > > > > > > These days the choice of filesystem should make no significant > > > difference. Certainly it won't matter if an -rt kernel is used. > > > > > > > Well, doesn't reiserfs use quite a lot more cpu than ext3? I think > > that may make a significant difference... > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > Reiserfs is optimized for smaller files (10 times as fast for files under 1k > size, compared to ext3), and sluggish on huge files, so it would perform > worse if you are mainly using large data (multitracking, wavetable > synthesis), and slightly better if you are mainly working with small data, > or data created in ram at runtime (fm, am, algorithmic synthesis, real time > sampling). For a multitract machine reiser would definitely not help, for a > machine emulating a moog, or doing experimental realtime synthesis, it may > be a small improvement. > That's already been said. What I pointed out was that reiserfs uses more cpu time than ext3, and for audio use, cpu usage may make a significant difference, while throughput, which you are talking about, probably don't. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
