Re: [LAU] Best file system for audio?

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Subject: Re: [LAU] Best file system for audio?
From: Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd@email-addr-hidden>
To: linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden, lists@email-addr-hidden
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
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