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On Wednesday 29 June 2011 01:40:24 Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:

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> On Monday, June 27, 2011 05:47:13 pm S. Massy wrote:

> > 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?

>=20

> Something like this should do you good:

>=20

>   - 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.

I don't believe the journal takes that much overhead. What makes recording=

=20

more difficult is that with one ardour-session and several channels, you ar=

e=20

writing several files at once. So you want a disk with fast seek-time and/o=

r=20

high latencies set in jack/ardour. And if you want to optimize the disk, yo=

u=20

will take a serious look at ssd for the recording of the current session an=

d=20

hold the archive on a nas with raid.

If you are just recording (no playback of existing material) you can furthe=

r=20

optimize by using an app that records your several channels into one file=20

(which is written sequentially) like timemachine and the likes.
Wether you use ext[234], xfs or anything else doesn't matter. All current=20

filesystems can be resized at least offline, so putting your partitions in =

a lvm=20

is a good idea even if you are on a laptop.
>   - For everything else... use a stable, journaling

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>     filesystem.  ext4 is very nice, as is ext3.

>     But things like xfs, reiserfs, jfs, etc... these

>     are all good choices.

'reiserfs' and 'stable' in the same sentence:-/

Well, there are two types of people regarding reiserfs, those who love it a=

nd=20

those who lost data using reiserfs...
Have fun,
Arnold
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