[ltp] Re: Good FS for laptop

[dirk husemann]

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On Wednesday 17 March 2004 22.41, you wrote:
CS > According to Jeffrey Taylor:
CS > > What are good filesystems for laptops.  It strikes me that with
CS > > essentially a UPS built into the laptop and the frequent journal
CS > > commits in a journaling FS, ext3 and ReiserFS may not be the best
CS > > choices.
CS >
CS > Even laptops crash.  I'm using XFS but that was a mistake, if I were
CS > starting over I'd use ext3.  New features like laptop mode always have
CS > hooks into ext3 before other filesystems, since it's most common.

i used XFS...a harddisk upgrade (why is it that harddisks are always 90%=20
full?) allowed me to go to ext3...am very happy with that choice...i tend t=
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like living on the bleeding edge and manage to freeze/crash my laptop more=
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frequently then i'd like to...ext3 has been really helpful here, almost no=
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data loss

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Dr Dirk Husemann, Mobile Computing, IBM Research, Zurich Research Lab
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