[ardour-users] disk throughput problems with beta

[Peter Lutek]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:18:12 -0500, Jesse Chappell <jesse at essej.net> wrote:

> What filesystem are you using?  There was some research about
> fragmentation of the audio and peak files (which are written  
> simultaneously)
> that affects performance.  Recently we changed (i think pre beta28)
> the peak files to be written into a separate directory from the
> soundfiles in the session dir.  This should have helped a lot.

just looked at some recent session directories and, while a separate peak  
directory does exist, in fact it is empty, and the peak files are being  
written in the same directory as the wave files.

also, do you have a suggestion of a filesystem which may be better than  
ext3?

thanks!

-p