[ardour-users] disk throughput problems with beta

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:53:03 -0500, Peter Lutek <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:39:02 -0500, Peter Lutek <plutek at infinity.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > also, do you have a suggestion of a filesystem which may be better than
> > ext3?
> 
> reading some posted speed tests.... looks like reiser4 extent40 may be a
> winner, but is it stable yet?

Apparently no.

> otherwise, perhaps XFS is best for now?

Possibly. I think it's actually better than reiserfs for large files
so it seems like a candidate. I don't use it but I know peeple who do
for non-audio work. They generally really like it.

I am too tethered to Windows to use anythign other than FAT32. Gotta
break that habit... ;-)
> 
> anyone here with first-hand experience?

None. I wouldn't even listen to me, and most of the time don't...

- Mark