From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2J2X-0001Qr-K0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:36:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j791Z9LR022293; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:35:09 GMT Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j791UA6U027652 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:30:11 GMT Received: (qmail 25070 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2005 01:30:34 -0000 Received: from dsl027-182-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO chi.speakeasy.net) (rmsand@[216.27.182.150]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Aug 2005 01:30:34 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:30:34 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Message-ID: <20050808183034.45c141d0@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e9042434-b2cf-48f3-916f-5a9d4721543e X-Archives-Hash: 29ea5572636a7d0fce895b44d5609dcf On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:40:36 +0200 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? > I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a > sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that > also doesn't (overly) unneccesarily spin up the hard drive. > Any journaling filesystem is going to spin up the drive or keep it spinning. And unless your drive is one of the 7200 rpm drives, it's still not the energy hog that the LCD is. > I don't think that I'll use Reiser4, as it's lacking an > online fs resizer. At least making the fs bigger should be > doable while the FS is mounted. > You're asking for Enterprise server features for a laptop? fwiw - I use XFS on my laptop. It survives fine with power going away. But, if all the data is in the buffer and the drive is spun down, having the power die will cause lost data regardless of filesystem. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list