ReiserFS (was: Re: Re: [ltp] Recomendations on the "best" distribution for TP)

Byeong-ryeol Kim linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Wed, 9 May 2001 04:05:00 +0900 (KST)


On Tue, 8 May 2001, Tino Keitel wrote:

> > manufacturer of this card). Also, I believe it is not possible to
> > specify Reisser FS (which seems to many advantages over ext2fs from what
> > I've heard) as a file system when doing a standard Debian Potato
> > installation.
>
> BTW, any ReiserFS-on-ThinkPad users out there? I tried it and it seems like ReiserFS flushes its journaling data every 30 seconds directly to the disk, bypassing the Linux write cache. That means that the disk will spin up if it's down. I use noflushd and with ext2 fs the hard disk goes down for ours if nothing has to be read from disk. So I think ReiserFS is useless for someone who needs long battery uptimes. Or am I doing something wrong?
...

Isn't this a known problem, which was admitted by the author  when he
had released noflushd-2.4?

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