Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] filesystem performance
From: Rick Taylor (ricktaylor_AT_speakeasy.net)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 15:38:50 EEST
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 07:49:46 -0400
LinuxMedia <linuxmedia4_AT_netscape.net> wrote:
I've used all of these with no problems.
http://aurora.zemris.fer.hr/filesystems/
If it's a real problem... try setting up an ext2 partition and using it as a
working drive. If it's still a problem... I'd look to something other than
the filesystem. Maybe hdparm?
> Greetings,
>
> I remember some talk a while ago about different filesystems and their
> performance. All my partitions are formatted as reiserfs and I get
> terrible performance. I've done tons of tests, bought a 7200 RPM drive,
> bought more ram, worked with buffer sizes... So I'm assuming that I need
> to format my drive as another filesystem.
>
> I also put the following entry in fstab:
>
> none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
> I understood this as putting /tmp in ram? I'm getting such poor
> performance that I actually move my sound files in /tmp and work out of
> it while doing multitracking.
>
> Could anyone tell Me what the conclusion was about what is the best
> filesystem for these kinds of heavy recording loads?
>
> Thanks,
> Rocco
>
>
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