[PlanetCCRMA] Choice of partition format for DFD Multisamples?

Aaron Heller heller@ai.sri.com
Mon Dec 29 18:21:02 2003


Mr.Freeze wrote:

> Heyall,
> I've got all my HD partitions formatted in the ext3 extension, as it was
> whispered over here and there to be the best solution within Linux for
> recoveries after crashes.
> 
> I've spared a 15-GB partition specially for Direct-From-Disk triggering
> multisampled instruments (particularly later with LinuxSampler already working
> on the console only with *.gig files): is ext3 still the best choice?
> Won't this cause heavy fragmentation due to journalization?

I've been using ReiserFS on all my data partitions with great success.

man mkreiserfs or http://www.namesys.com/

Aaron Heller <heller@ai.sri.com>