[ltp] Journaling on a laptop?

Arno Willig linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:19:04 +0200


> What's the current thinking on journaling filesystems on a laptop? In
> the past, I've used ext2 instead, based on the idea that the HD will
> spin down and save battery life if I'm using a non-journaling file
> system.

I use the fabulous Reiser4 filesystem (which can be found in the
mm-patches for recent kernels on kernel.org) and I am very happy with
it.
Journaling works fine and the filesystem is lighning-fast.

Ciao, Arno



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Arno Willig <arno@pflanzenbestimmung.de>