Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

Andrew Morton
2004-07-13T00:48:01Z

Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> > resierfs: yes, it's a problem. I "fixed" it multiple times in 2.4, but the
> > fixes ended up breaking the fs in subtle ways and I eventually gave up.
> >
>
> Interesting. There is an overwhelming consensus amongst Linux audio
> folks that you should use reiserfs for low latency work.

It seems to be misplaced. A simple make-a-zillion-teeny-files test here
exhibits a 14 millisecond holdoff.

> Should I try ext3?

ext3 is certainly better than that, but still has a couple of potential
problem spots. ext2 is probably the best at this time.