[ltp] Re: Good FS for laptop

Chip Salzenberg linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:41:05 -0500


According to Jeffrey Taylor:
> What are good filesystems for laptops.  It strikes me that with
> essentially a UPS built into the laptop and the frequent journal
> commits in a journaling FS, ext3 and ReiserFS may not be the best
> choices.

Even laptops crash.  I'm using XFS but that was a mistake, if I were
starting over I'd use ext3.  New features like laptop mode always have
hooks into ext3 before other filesystems, since it's most common.

You can always drop back to ext2 temporarily on any given reboot.
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Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
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