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 1E2UQH-0005FT-Pq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:45:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79DhjQ2000414; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:43:45 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79Dbfd0020271 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:37:42 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i1so810307wra for ; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:38:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hy0ZrBtFSwZyDBlVzjHpQOscbZsh+UXIxJ5yp2vw2wyMEG20hvf7jA1HM5fJmgriBMGC6S+4ZfyqHPR+JVUU6QZZgo3DdGYlO1wsCOnGIj8Smb4j2OBbduFXd2YBu6J1LlUO+Gcu+vUKFMmzplkJPLmxDcyhPgCFUAl8nBBH7dw= Received: by 10.54.45.14 with SMTP id s14mr5585301wrs; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.45.25 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 06:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7e7f5e710508090638ddeac0e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:38:11 -0400 From: "A. R." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? In-Reply-To: <20050809090056.3f3ecf75@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <200508090351.58660.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <42F821EF.6050400@asmallpond.org> <20050809090056.3f3ecf75@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j79Dbfd0020271 X-Archives-Salt: bb9feaa2-a794-4bc7-b128-4d6a37b30cfd X-Archives-Hash: f918c6054b448f2087caa1bfd5ea24eb On 8/9/05, Neil Bothwick 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 -- The absence of war does not mean peace. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list