From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N74xX-0007u5-NP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:25:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F02AE086B; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay1j.uniserve.ca [216.210.109.128]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D42E086B for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-143.83.126.206.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([206.126.83.143] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N74xU-0000sD-R2 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:25:22 -0800 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:25:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 05:25:19 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced" Message-ID: <20091108102519.GC4719@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20091107170519.GC4713@ca.inter.net> <1257648410.12847.68.camel@rattus> <200911080835.51858.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200911080835.51858.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: 3455b6a1-2ec6-4627-80ab-760665b6ea96 X-Archives-Hash: 1c15665c846907c7ef1a7d086b93a491 091108 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> is Ext2 the best fs for this machine ? Might Ext3 or Ext4 be better ? >> -- I use Reiserfs on my desktop machines. > the journal will wear out an SSD in short order, > so ext2 is indeed the better file system > All conventional filesystems are built to suit rotating disk media. > SSDs are very different, esp the cheap nasty controllers in netbooks. Sensible advice, no doubt, for those using SSDs in their netbooks, but as I said in my OP, my ASUS 1005HA has a 160 GB hard disk (HDD), whence the letter 'H' in its name. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca