From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263714AbUGMDbX (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:31:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263752AbUGMDbW (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:31:22 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:17661 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263714AbUGMDbV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:31:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch From: Florin Andrei To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu In-Reply-To: <1089677823.10777.64.camel@mindpipe> References: <20040709182638.GA11310@elte.hu> <20040710222510.0593f4a4.akpm@osdl.org> <1089673014.10777.42.camel@mindpipe> <20040712163141.31ef1ad6.akpm@osdl.org> <1089677823.10777.64.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1089689478.2523.16.camel@rivendell.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:31:18 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 17:17, Lee Revell wrote: > There is an overwhelming consensus amongst Linux audio > folks that you should use reiserfs for low latency work. I doubt the "overwhelming consensus" part. ReiserFS is good at creating/deleting lots of small files and that's not a typical scenario when doing audio work. For audio stuff the FS does not seem to matter much. However, when working with large files (there are audio apps that create large project files sometimes, especially when working in 96/24 mode and that kind of stuff) i've seen better results with XFS. When files get really big (think: video capture) there's no doubt XFS is best. I've had a video capture app skipping frames no matter what, on Ext3 and ReiserFS. Switch to XFS, the result: no more frame skipping. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/