[64studio-devel] File format Question .....

[Daniel James]

Hi Quentin, hi David,

>> would it be better (better performance) if I made a partition 
>> on that 2nd drive that was formatted with ext3 for Ardour to store its 
>> files on ??
> 
> Not only will you get better performance, but you will also find that 
> fat32 has a 4GB file size limit.

Let's not forget that ext3 is journalling, and FAT32 is not, so your 
data is safer from sudden power losses with ext3. FAT filesystems 
fragment faster than a rock band fighting over a psycho girlfriend. And 
Microsoft claims patents on FAT32, which if they started enforcing 
against GNU/Linux distributions, we would have to remove support for.

So I agree with Quentin - use ext3 :-)

Cheers!

Daniel