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 1E2P7e-0003lg-4m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:06:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7984lKs020538; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:04:47 GMT Received: from pythagoras.zen.co.uk (pythagoras.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.140]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7980aFC026026 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:00:36 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by pythagoras.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E2P2l-0005Ec-Ft for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:01:03 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7035C1405F4E for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:01:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:00:56 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Message-ID: <20050809090056.3f3ecf75@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <42F821EF.6050400@asmallpond.org> References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <200508090351.58660.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <42F821EF.6050400@asmallpond.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_09_00_56_+0100_YlU396wAc=7gn.hG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 37ccab79-e403-4c5d-930f-15cfcb7fed34 X-Archives-Hash: 34bd1c6ef213fc8a14949b1538e856f5 --Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_09_00_56_+0100_YlU396wAc=7gn.hG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > In the last year, I have run XFS, reiserfs v3, and ext3 on my laptop. > I mostly agree with you, although XFS doesn't really replace entire > files with zeros, just blocks that have been allocated but not written > with actual data...so /var/log/messages is likely to get some zeros in > the event of a bad crash. Files that were not being written at the > time of the crash are not affected. XFS is good for a laptop as it is less likely to suffer a sudden failure than a desktop, the battery acts as a UPS. As long as you run some sort of battery monitor that shuts the computer down cleanly when battery levels become critical, power loss should not be an issue. > XFS: aggressively caches, so might give you some power=20 > savings...although real-world savings are likely to be slight to none. =20 > Nice features (the only one that offers a free defragmentation utility,=20 > even if it is brain-damaged). Cannot be shrunk, only grown. However, it can be grown while mounted, something that is unsafe with the other filesystems, and something the OP asked for. > Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower=20 > performance for others. Also can only be grown. That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the filesystem must be unmounted. --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows booting: insert CD-ROM 2. --Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_09_00_56_+0100_YlU396wAc=7gn.hG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC+GK8um4al0N1GQMRAqNnAKDaWE+XUqi7iIhFB9DgkSI1ABW56QCfQNcr u/2NtTSwde6Ppo5Ut7QPsns= =d7n6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_09_00_56_+0100_YlU396wAc=7gn.hG-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list