[Ardour-Users] Audio drive - file system?

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Mon Aug 20 06:26:47 PDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 15:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 14:17 +0100, Noel Darlow wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > > >  Okay, so i am now considering a seperate external drive for the
> > > > audio file. Which file system should i format in?
> > 
> > XFS is a good filesystem for media (ie large) files on a dedicated AV
> > partition. More here:
> > 
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XFS_Filesystem
> 
> That's the Wiki, but could you please explain why somebody should use
> something exotic?

PS: The Wagner opera in one wav or every bar of a pop song in a single
wav? 	ext3 and ext4 are common and they do work for the Wagner opera in
one wav and the pop song with ever bar by single wav.





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