On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:49:37AM -0700, kagemusha@gmx.co.uk wrote (slightly reformatted by kj): > On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 05:34, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > > On 15 Jun 2002 14:02:39 -0700 > > kagemusha@gmx.co.uk wrote: > > > > > I would highly > > > recommend and xfs install, particularly on a laptop. > > > > Why "XFS, particularly on a laptop" ? > I say "Particularly on a Laptop" because laptops are the most likely > computers to be hard rebooted (i.e. running out of battery power), and > because of this you definitely want a journaled file system to minimize > data loss and fs corruption, and I've found XFS to be the most robust > and least prone to data loss. [ .. advantages of journalling snipped .. ] A journalled filesystem (ext3 in my case) does seem to keep the HD spinning constantly - not even noflushd helps me. Is this "problem" solved in xfs? -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ... An rfc2324 advocate http://www.rfc.net/rfc2324.html
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