Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:52:42 +0300 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: ext2 file sizes |
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On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:31:38PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: .... (using other operating systems than Linux at ia32 system) .... > I'd say no on both claims here. > > a.) (most simple solution) Get an Alpha, Sparc64 or Power64 (not PPC) > based machine
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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