Re: Which filesystem for a notebook?

[Michal Frackowiak <cieciol@o2.pl>]

Mark Janssen wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:02, Michal Frackowiak wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am going to install linux on a Mitac 6120 (p3 700) machine with 12gb 
> > hdd. My question is however a general one: which filesystem to install?
> > The possibilities are:
> >
> > 1. ext2 - standard
> > 2. ext3 - with logging
> > 3. raiserfs - with logging
>
> If you want more battery life, stick with ext2, since the journaling
> filesystems keep the harddisk spinning all the time.
No way to stop it? No standby?

> Installing reiser is harder, since you need to install somewhere, get a
> reiser capable kernel, reboot with that, make reiser filesystems and
> move your data from the 'somewhere' location to the real filesystems.
I think one of boot disk of woody is reiserfs-ready. So I could just 
start with a plain hdd.

> I've had reiserfs on my laptop for a long time... but at the last
> disk-crash (all filesystems broken) I switched to ext3 (because it was
> in 2.4 kernel then, and I didn't want to go through all the hassle of
> reiser installation etc.
Did I mention the system MUST be stable ;)

thanx
michal



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