[ltp] Re: Good FS for laptop

[mukesh agrawal]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> 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.

One thing to keep in mind about ext2 vs ext3: you can sometimes undelete
files on a ext2 fs using e2undel. But you can't do this with ext3.
(Despite the fact that ext3 is very similar to ext2, there are some
differences in how they handle deletions. In ext3, from what I understand,
the filesystem code actually zeros out the inode on deletion.)