Re: real-time threaded IO with low latency (audio)

Mark Hahn (hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 14:37:29 +0000 ( )

> normal file I/O, or possibly grab an entire partition and use a custom
> (huge block) file system if you really need to get close to the max
> transfer rate of the drive.

I can't resist pointing out that you DO NOT need a special FS
to deliver performance equal to platter-level bandwidth.
Ext2 routinely does so, for instance, with 4K blocks (BX, celeron, UDMA).

regards, mark hahn.

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