On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 05:52, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: > [ .. separate /boot ...] Plus you can > use the most robust filesystem (ext2/3) on it without losing any performance > in regular use. (Not that there's that much to be gained with reiserfs or > xfs)
I've been using reiserfs with NO problems on my main partitions, but for my next build I'll be switching back to ext2 <yes, shocking> so that I can use noflushd [1] to prevent drive spin up and thus greatly extend my laptop battery when making trans-oceanic flights. [1] http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 472 5054 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
