[ltp] Filesystem choice?

[Buchan Milne]

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I am running Mandrake 9.0 on a 600X, and I noticed that under
windows2000, the machine almost never writes to disk when idle (or doing
simple tasks). However, under Mandrake 9.0, I think I am getting a
journal write every 10 seconds.

Since I have a choice of FSs available (Reiser, XFS, ext2, ext3, JFS), I
was wondering what others would reccomend, in terms of less disk usage
when idle without sacrificing FS robustness. I guess a journalling FS is
not so critical on a machine with a built-in UPS, but I still don't like
ext2 ...

Of course, XFS has some nice features, but this isn't a fileserver ;-).

Buchan
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