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From: "A. R." <feoymalo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:38:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e7f5e710508090638ddeac0e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050809090056.3f3ecf75@hactar.digimed.co.uk>

On 8/9/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

(snip)

> 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.
> 

Absolutely.
I have been using XFS in my IBM Thinkpad for months now without any problems. 
XFS seems to be well suited for laptop use when things are configured
as you just described.

Regards, 

- AR


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-09 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-08 21:40 [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Alexander Skwar
2005-08-09  1:30 ` Bob Sanders
2005-08-09  9:33   ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-08-09 20:47     ` Bob Sanders
2005-08-13 11:29       ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-13 11:59         ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-13 12:24           ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-13 12:37             ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-13 15:58         ` Uwe Thiem
2005-08-09  1:51 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-09  3:24   ` Richard Fish
2005-08-09  5:32     ` Michael Crute
2005-08-09  8:00     ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 13:38       ` A. R. [this message]
2005-08-09 13:42       ` Mauro Faccenda
2005-08-09 13:40         ` Mike Williams
2005-08-09 13:54         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-08-09 14:29         ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 15:09       ` Richard Fish
2005-08-09 15:41         ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 18:14     ` Billy Holmes
2005-08-09 18:46       ` Christian Parpart
2005-08-09 20:36         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-10 15:49         ` [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?) Billy Holmes
2005-08-10 15:57           ` Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
2005-08-10 16:14             ` Billy Holmes
2005-08-10 18:02               ` Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
2005-08-10 20:42               ` Craig Zeigler
2005-08-16 18:19     ` [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Alexander Skwar

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