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 1E2b4n-0003GO-2H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:51:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79KoYrH021136; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:50:34 GMT Received: from mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79KksTF019595 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:46:55 GMT Received: (qmail 10640 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2005 20:47:24 -0000 Received: from dsl027-182-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO chi.speakeasy.net) (rmsand@[216.27.182.150]) (envelope-sender ) by mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Aug 2005 20:47:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:47:24 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Message-ID: <20050809134724.5c2b2cba@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <1123580007.32084.57.camel@neuromancer.home.net> References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <20050808183034.45c141d0@chi.speakeasy.net> <1123580007.32084.57.camel@neuromancer.home.net> 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: b802477b-cf2f-4ced-830a-bba58b09161f X-Archives-Hash: bf0491b38d31746a364cf9960133849f On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:27 +0800 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of > curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood) > Perhaps I should mention one of the main reasons I use XFS - the tools. Performance is not a reason. Reliability is a reason. And the tools. xfs_check and xfs_repair are about the best I've seen. No, if your LVM superblock is trashed, they won't fix it. They fix the filesystem, not the disk/partition structure. And xfs_dump/xfs_restore make cloning a partition very easy. Given all the discussion in this list alone about cloning drives, I'm really surprised more people don't adopt XFS just for this issue alone. Disclaimer - yes I work for SGI. No I don't develop, I break software. And I pull plugs on running systems. So any advice I give here on anything related to SGI products should be treated with caution. No, I don't speak for SGI. And yes I really do use XFS on almost all my systems - Trying ext3 on a Kurobox (200 MHz PPC runnng Gentoo) and RiserFS on one of the desktop x86 systems. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list