I can only say that I am not using any form of preallocation and still get
acceptable performance, even if I am forced to use quite big buffers to
overcome to filesystem latencies.
I tried to compare ext2 to FAT, but I do not get visible differences in terms of
buffer usage spikes (= disk thread
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:24:16AM +0200, Andrew Clausen wrote:
i mentioned in some remarks to benno how important i thought it was to
preallocate the files used for hard disk recording under linux.
[...]
Unfortunately efficient preallocation is rather hard with the current
ext2. To do it
Hi all,
Any comments?
i mentioned in some remarks to benno how important i thought it was to
preallocate the files used for hard disk recording under linux.
i was doing more work on ardour yesterday, and had the occasion to
create some new "tapes", of lengths from 2 to 40 minutes.
the
Andrew Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
Any comments?From: Paul Barton-Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [linux-audio-dev] info point on linux hdr
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Date: Fri Apr 14 07:10:10 2000 -0500
i mentioned in some remarks to benno how important i thought it was to
Unfortunately efficient preallocation is rather hard with the current
ext2. To do it efficiently you just want to allocate the blocks in the
bitmaps without writing into the actual allocated blocks (otherwise
it would be as slow as the manual write-every-block-from-userspace trick)
yes, its
Date:Sat, 15 Apr 2000 01:35:10 +0200
From: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:24:16AM +0200, Andrew Clausen wrote:
i mentioned in some remarks to benno how important i thought it was to
preallocate the files used for hard disk recording under linux.
