Initial condition was stated as: "ia32 system",
which excludes current 64-bit systems...
> b.) I don't believe Matti Aarnio's patches are too far away...
>
> Of course, at least for video & audio, using Raw-IO would probably be a
> third alternative.
Thanks for the "b", but for grabbing I would (myself) use
initially raw partition and Raw-IO, then I would pull the
data out from there in a more leisure pace to normal
filesystem for non-realtime task of editing -- and for
the playback I would again drop it into the Raw-IO...
For video playback (and grabbing) nothing really beats
filesystems with 32-to-256 kB block sizes, and schedulable
IO. Linux does not have such a beast - so far...
(Getting extent indexing into EXT2 would allow it to mutate
towards such wonder animal, though..)
If you want to play some, my LFS things are at:
ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/
> /David
> // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander \\
/Matti Aarnio
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