-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Best file system for audio? From: Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd@xxxxxxxxx> To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 06/28/2011 05:40 PM > On Monday, June 27, 2011 05:47:13 pm S. Massy wrote: >> Hello, all, >> >> I know this topic comes up now and again. I'm about to >> create a partition for audio work and am wondering >> whether any new consensus has been reached over which is >> the best file system format for the job. What are you, >> fellows using? > Something like this should do you good: > > - For hard disk recording... use a NON-journaling > file system like ext2. (E.g. mounted as > /tmp or something.) This removes the overhead > of updating the journal for each transaction > to the disk. If you have a power failure during > a recording, you're pretty fsck'd no matter which > way you go... so the journal won't help you. What type of performance hit does journalized file systems take? Does a non-journalized file system give you less latency? > - For everything else... use a stable, journaling > filesystem. ext4 is very nice, as is ext3. > But things like xfs, reiserfs, jfs, etc... these > are all good choices. I do *not* recommend > btrfs right now. I've encountered too many > problems with it to recommend it as a stable fs. > > I think I first encountered this idea from the ardour docs. > > -gabriel > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- Christopher Cherrett ccherrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.openoctave.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
