On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 20:57:03 -0700, Evan Martin composed: > I saw somewhere (was it this list?) that ext3 is what has been causing > my laptop's hard drive to spin up every few seconds after it has spun down. > > I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser > doesn't work with noflushd and XFS does. > > After much googling, it seems someone has built the necessary > boot-floppies already: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200208/msg00227.html > but that site gives me 404s. > > Can I find XFS-enabled boot floppies elsewhere? > (Is using XFS instead of Reiser/ext3 a good idea? I'm a little scared > by bug reports as recent as August: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200208/msg00241.html > > ...) > check http://www.penguinppc.org/~eb/files . there should be something there to help you. and for the oldworld pmacs, i'm writing a mini howto, since on that platform it's a little more complicated.
as to bugs, i haven't had any probs, tho i'm using v1.1 of xfs. no, 1.1 isnt only for IA64 / x86 :). simon > Thanks, > Evan. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >