[ltp] Re: Good FS for laptop

[Heiko Rosemann]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> 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.

I'm actually back to ext2 altogether because laptop mode and noflushd work
better with ext2 - my harddrive usually spins down right after reboot and
only spins up when I load my email program with ~200MB emails. Web surfing,
mail reading and writing once the cache is loaded is entirely done from the
cache, with the harddisk quiet. (256MB RAM, no huge KDE or whatever)

HTH, Heiko
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