[Ardour-Users] LVM for audio disk?

[Wayne DePrince Jr.]

On lun, 2014-04-21 at 07:37 -0500, Brett Clark wrote: 

> Two items:
>   1) Although you didnt mention your sampling rate, 


    yes, that would have been useful ;)  48 kHz at 24-bit, which i
imagine is nothing so drastic that would change your (or other's)
advice.


> if you are only doing 4 audio and 1 midi track then disk performance
> should not be an issue at all.  Ive layed 24 trackes at 44.1/24
> sampling to an old ATA-100 drive before.  If you are using a  modern
> machine with SATA drives then you should be able to exceed that.
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>   2) The performance "hit" for using LVM is, for all practical
> purposes, non-existant. 
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>   3) I know i said "two items", but now that i have your attention...
>  I can absolutely confirm what Steve and Neil responded.  Ive been a
> Linux admin for 15 years and can say unequivocally that LVM has never
> been a performance issue on any system i worked on.
> 
> 
> Hope that helps!!!


    all the responses have definitely helped.  thanks to you, Steve and
Niel for taking the time to respond.  i will definitely go with LVM for
the flexibility on my audio drive based on your recommendations.

    thanks again.

peace, w


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> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Wayne DePrince Jr.
> <waynedpj at in-giro.org> wrote:
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>         ahoy all,
>         
>           sorry for the slightly off topic post, but this list has
>         lots of experienced users who perhaps have more info than i
>         have been able to find elsewhere.
>         
>           i am wondering if anyone has experience or advice on using
>         LVM for a partition that will be used by Ardour for recording
>         audio and MIDI, probably no more than 4 audio channels and an
>         additional MIDI channel at a time being recorded, along with
>         simultaneous playback.  it seems like the performance hit for
>         LVM is not too substantial, especially when compared to the
>         flexibility it provides (e.g. when i run out of HD space for
>         recording).  however, the best info i could find was this old
>         SO post:
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>         https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7122/does-lvm-impact-performance
>         
>         as i do not have the luxury of spare drive space to test it
>         out myself, i would appreciate any
>         experience/thoughts/opinions using LVM with Ardour.
>         
>           thanks.
>         
>         peace, w
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