<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html style="direction: ltr;"> <head> </head> <body style="direction: ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia">Hi guys,</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"><br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia">The release candidate statement for Ubuntu Studio 9.04 says that ext4 is not recommended. This comes a bit a late for me because I've already converted my household to ext4 weeks ago. (Living on the edge, baby!)</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"><br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia">Can anybody provide more details as to why this is not recommended? Is it the linux-rt kernel? Is it that audio apps feature that silly fsync "bug"?</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"><br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia">I guess what I can do at this stage is create a special ext3 partition for just saving my audio data.</font> (<font face="Georgia">I'm a heavy user of Ardour.) Would that be enough, or should I just avoid using ext4 via linux-rt altogether? If I insist, what would be the consequences?<br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"><br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia">(By the way, is there a recommended Linux filesystem for audio work?)</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"><br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia">The return of linux-rt to Ubuntu makes me very, very happy. :) I bow in gratitude before the team's dev, packaging, and bureaucratic prowess at bringing this release together.</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"><br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia">-Tal</font><br> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><font face="Georgia"></font></p> </body> </html>