Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Journaling filesystems [was: Ardour Crash + can't boot]
From: Jan Depner (eviltwin69_AT_cableone.net)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 21:09:22 EEST
Oh, I forgot to mention, the reason for using ext3 on the root and boot
partitions is that it is pretty much bullet-proof. I'm sure that
reiserfs is pretty stable at this point but I'm not worried about speed
on root and boot just reliability.
Jan
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:40, Maarten de Boer wrote:
> > If you're going to rebuild use ext3 instead of ext2 for the root
> > partition. It's journalled. Use Reiserfs for the data partition. The
>
> What is the reason for using two different filesystems here? Is reiserfs
> more suitable for (audio) data?
>
> Personally, I am using xfs (also journalled) for all workstations I
> install, after having used it successfully on a heavy duty fileserver
> for more than 2 years. It never gave me any problems, and I have done
> some nasty tests.
>
> Now, I have never run Ardour - on top of my TODO list for a looong time
> :-), so I can't say how Ardour and xfs play together, but I'd be surprised
> if there are any problems. Anyway, I would be very much interested to hear
> if others are using xfs, and how it behaves under heavy multitrack audio
> IO.
>
> Ah, and xfs has a special "realtime" mode. From the kernel configuration:
>
> If you say Y here you will be able to mount and use XFS filesystems
> which contain a realtime subvolume. The realtime subvolume is a
> separate area of disk space where only file data is stored. The
> realtime subvolume is designed to provide very deterministic
> data rates suitable for media streaming applications.
>
> which sounds very interesting. BUT!:
>
> This feature is unsupported at this time, is not yet fully
> functional, and may cause serious problems.
>
> Serious problems... Hmm, looking at Aaron's mail, he already got
> enough serious problems even without experimental xfs features...
>
> xfs is in kernel 2.6.x, and has been included in 2.4.25 as well.
> (before that, sgi provides patches)
>
> maarten
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