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

[Jeremy Davis]

Ken,
Do you mind if I ask, what exactly make and model usb drive would you
recommend? My laptop has an ssd drive and adding an extra internal is not
an option.

If I am not mistaken, the reason Ardour is so demanding on the write
resources is because it features nondestructive recording with infinite
"undo" capability. All the changes are written to file, which allows you to
go as far as you wish backward or forward through changes in your session
and the original sound files are never altered. Most other OSS DAW software
available does not offer this. That was one of my main attractions to it.
Plus the sampling rate is limited only by the resources of your computer.
The forums claim Ardour is on par or exceeds the capabilities of
proprietary software used in high end recording studios.
On Sep 29, 2014 4:30 PM, "Ken MacKenzie" <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> It has to do with trying to access the same disk at different points at the
> same time.  Recording in Ardour you will be hitting the disk at three
> different points:
>
> 1.  reading the application and OS
> 2.  SWAP (turning swappiness down to 10 is usually recommended)
> 3.  The actual write of the recorded data.
>
> add an optional 4th point if you are tracking along with existing tracks
> and reading that data point.
>
> Fact is Ardour has long had an issue with writing to the same disk that it
> and the os and the swap is being run from.
>
> When I would record remote with Ardour and the firepod it could not be done
> with just the internal drive, would always get an error.  As soon as added
> a USB 2.0 drive as the external audio data store all disk access issues
> went away.
>
> On my desktop I have /home mounted to a completely different disk drive and
> that is where Ardour records to.
>
> I appreciate the thoughts of what should be faster but this is a long known
> thing when recording with ardour particularly with laptops.  The solution
> has always been to use an external data store with laptops and dual drives
> when using a desktop.
>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:20 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.
> >>
> >
> > if speed is neccesary, then an external usb v2.0 harddrive (ie designed
> > for backup only) is not going to cut it. Nothing external is going to be
> as
> > fast as the internal disk (path is shorter). Maybe he could run the app
> off
> > a cdrom and write to the laptop drive at least till it starts running
> well
> >
> > Joe
> >
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