On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clem...@ladisch.de> wrote:
> Nikita Zlobin wrote: > > While configuring kernel, i stucked on option CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER, which > > enables /dev/raw device section. > > > > I suppose, things like linuxsampler or others, hardly working with > > storage, might utilize this access way for most direct access to > > samples. Or even in audio recording (only nearly imaginations). > > Is it so really? > > No. Using a raw device would require that the application implements > its own file system. > > Streaming audio samples is easy to handle with existing file systems. > > It's usually database systems like Oracle (maybe PostgreSQL?) that use raw device access like that. Not as a big of an issue these days as it was in the late 90s/early 00s, where system performance wasn't as good, or drives weren't as fast or efficient. Even commercial samplers like Kontakt don't use raw access either for DFD streaming.
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