[ltp] Good FS for laptop

Daniel Jimenez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:37:13 -0600


Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
> 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.
> 
> TIA,
>   Jeffrey

I say ext3 for life. Others say "Oh only this file gets corrupted on a 
crash", I say one corrupted file is one too many. The speed boost for 
reiser or xfs is not noticable enough to give up the reliability.

That's my opinion anyways.

-- 
Daniel Jimenez <djimenez[at]pobox[dot]com>