On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:17:35 -0700 Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> wrote: > According to Hugo S.Carrer, > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:06:21 +0200 > > "PF" <nobody@tiscali.it> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on > > > laptops. > > > > > > Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on > > > a HP Omnibook and I wish using journaled fs principally to avoid fschk's... > > > > > > > I'm using ext3 on my toshiba, no fsck's for almost a year, and with several > > power failures during heavy FS usage. For now its working great, the only > > problem that I can't resolve is the commit interval. the HD spins down > > after some time to save battery power but spins right back because of the > > journal update or something , anyway it didn't happen with ext2 only. > > ... > > Check out noflushd. > I have nolushd running and it dows spin the disk down. > Also you can mount with option noatime to reduce writes > (atime updating means you have a write for every read!). > Doesn't this option reduce the recovery capability of the FS? > Tony > Thanks for the tips!! :) hugo ------ Gpg key: http://lcd.efn.uncor.edu/pubkeys/hsc_key.pgp
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