[TriLUG] How to prevent? "fsck died with exit status 4"

[Ken MacKenzie]

Ardour demands a lot on disk write and that goes up with the audio quality
level.  Using an SSD might mitigate that but that is a lot of writing of
large amounts to data to an SSD.  Incidentally looking around for some of
the ardour forum talk on this I did find someone talking about a known
Ardour segfault issue in AV Linux.  Has to do with one of the plugins AV
linux adds.  No time to read up on it right now and rarely use ardour these
days.

https://community.ardour.org/node/5089

Post by "Gmac" talks about the plugin segfault issue.  Well references, but
here is a rabbit hole to start wandering down.

I still only recommend ardour for high quality multitracking.  As a
composition environment it is weak.  Especially where MIDI is involved,
even in Ardour3.

Ken

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
>
>  Fact is for running Ardour to record audio an external drive is a must for
>> a laptop.  Ardour does not cooperate well when the OS and application live
>> on the same physical drive as the recording target.  A different partition
>> alone won't do it.  It literally needs a different physical medium.
>>
>
> I hadn't thought about this.
>
> This used to be called the spindle contention problem back when disks were
> much slower. I haven't heard about it since disks got fast, except for
> databases. I guess if you need fast, the application needs its own
> disk/spindle.
>
> Joe
>
>