On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Nikita Zlobin wrote:
> > While configuring kernel, i stucked on option CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER, which
> > enables /dev/raw device section.
> >
> > I suppose, things like linuxsampler or others, hardly working with
> > storage, might utilize this access way for most direct access to
> > samples. Or even in audio recording (only nearly imaginations).
> > Is it so really?
>
> No. Using a raw device would require that the application implements
> its own file system.
>
> Streaming audio samples is easy to handle with existing file systems.
>
>
It's usually database systems like Oracle (maybe PostgreSQL?) that use raw
device access like that. Not as a big of an issue these days as it was in
the late 90s/early 00s, where system performance wasn't as good, or drives
weren't as fast or efficient. Even commercial samplers like Kontakt don't
use raw access either for DFD streaming.
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-dev mailing list
Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Received on Tue Jun 13 20:15:01 2017
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Jun 13 2017 - 20:15:01 EEST