[Ardour-Users] Audio drive - file system?

[Brett Clark]

>
> > 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?


I apologize if im misunderstanding, but is XFS really considered "exotic"?
 I cant speak for other distros but I use Fedora and its readily available
on that.  After reading the wiki, i would be very interested in seeing some
metrics comparing XFS with both the EXT's.

--Brett



On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>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?
>
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