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