Am 06.12.2011 12:28, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi :) > > I'm new to the list.
Wrong list. You want arch-general. > Sorry that my mail is formatted in HTML. You're lucky you didn't get filtered. Apparently, we only strip the HTML from the message instead of blocking it completely. > I'll switch to Arch Linux because for my needs, audio productions, it could > be easier to keep it stable than it is for other distros. There was a blog post from some audio guy: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-tale Interesting read, he is very positive about Arch. > I've got two questions. > > 1. What is a safe FS, that can be recovered? Ext4 seemingly isn't such a FS. They barely exist. Maybe try btrfs, but btrfs is still considered unstable by its developers. You should rather do proper backups that you don't accidently delete. > The FS also should be usable for audio productions. What special properties does a file system need for audio production? > Security regarding to multiple user usage, web access, server usage etc. are > unimportant for a DAW. You won't find a filesystem that doesn't have the basic access control features. > 2. For my main Linux I always prefer to use 64-bit architecture, but 32-bit > architecture compatibility is needed. Is there something I should take care > about when installing Arch Linux? You can get 32 bit compatibility, but you need to install the required libraries from the multilib repository. This repository is disabled by default. For a list of available binary packages, see here: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?arch=x86_64&repo=Multilib&limit=all
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