On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:16:56 +1000 Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the other hand, ext3 is a relatively slow filesystem which is on-disk Ext3 is particularly poor for audio/mulitmedia work. The journaling process often grabs 100% of the CPU for extended periods of time causing soft realtime apps to miss scheduling deadlines. Since I recently lost the harddrive on my iBook and replaced it with a much larger drive, my plan was to run ext2 for all the data which is basically read only and use reiserfs for /home where the majority of the read/write action happens. So far I have the ext3 partition but ave not yet managed to get around to the making /home a separate partition. However, reading Jeff's post, I might just go for XFS instead of reiser. I'll let people know how it goes when I'm done (but don't hold you breaths). I also use tmpfs (filesystem in RAM/swap) for /tmp. If its in /tmp, I want it to be ***FAST*** and I don't want to save it between reboots. Using tmpfs for /tmp also has benefits for JACK (http://jackit.sf.net/). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Windows 95/98 - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
