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 1E2JM0-0006Jm-OL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:56:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j791tGd3006427; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:55:16 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j791pdvj023639 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:51:39 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id E08BD2A78C4 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 03:52:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (hathor.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.1]) by amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1745C2A6F49 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 03:52:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 6994085 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 03:52:02 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 03:51:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> In-Reply-To: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> 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="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508090351.58660.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: adec3639-d88e-459c-b40e-7fea51ea23d6 X-Archives-Hash: 17b386e7c37ca0ae65e59aa16c3b63da Hi, On Monday 08 August 2005 23:40, 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. > > 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. I do not have any direct experience, but from all that I read over the years I came to this: XFS is very fragile, when the power is failing. XFS will replace damaged files with zeros this is both not acceptable. Reiser4 is alpha code in motion. I would not touch it with a 10 feet pole at the moment. Well 4 filesystems left ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list