Re: [Audacity-devel] Disk performance limit, or, birds and brick walls

[Nick L. <nj...@ec...>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:21:33AM -0500, Monty wrote:
> Short story: at this point just shy of 64,000 little tiny block files
> in an ext3fs directory.  If this didn't just make your head spin
> around and then blow off, you can stop reading now :-)

Wait a few months for your preferred distro to carry Linux 2.6 or backport
the latest version of the 3rd extended filesystem and then...

tune2fs -O dir_index -L my-audio-disk
(where my-audio-disk is the label of a filesystem with an ext3 filesystem)

You can do this live, but in any case the effect applies only to newly
created directories, so you'll need to create a new Audacity "project"
to notice the difference. If I understand your situation correctly it should
be quite audible :)

Since Audacity is supposed to be portable it should probably make some
effort to work around this problem anyway, but it's comforting to know
that the _real_ problem has in fact been fixed.

Nick.