From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263159AbUGMGbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:31:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263204AbUGMGbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:31:51 -0400 Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.62]:34772 "EHLO snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263159AbUGMGbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:31:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:31:45 -0400 From: Paul Winkler To: "The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Message-ID: <20040713063145.GA14583@slinkp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Winkler , The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> <1089689478.2523.16.camel@rivendell.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1089689478.2523.16.camel@rivendell.home.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:31:18PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > 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. me too, but at some point in the 2.4 kernel cycle, reiserfs came out much better than ext3 in some latency tests* that were reported on linux-audio-dev and linux-audio-user lists. This seems to have left many of us musicianly types with a vague "reiser good, ext3 bad" mindset. * i think it was this: http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/Arcana.html#Mark%20Knecht's%20filesystem%20tests -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com