On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:30 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:40:36 +0200 > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? > > I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a > > sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that > > also doesn't (overly) unneccesarily spin up the hard drive. > > > > Any journaling filesystem is going to spin up the drive or keep it spinning. > And unless your drive is one of the 7200 rpm drives, it's still not the energy > hog that the LCD is.
For spinning down and power savings, I recommend using laptop_mode. (You can see the article I wrote for the MyOSS Magazine (Ed2 I think) (http:/mag.my-opensource.org) which I wrote about some of the items which you can use for POwer management in Linux. (also read in Ed4, Gnome-Power-Manager written by Richard Hughes, the lead developer) > > fwiw - I use XFS on my laptop. It survives fine with power going away. > But, if all the data is in the buffer and the drive is spun down, having the > power die will cause lost data regardless of filesystem. I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood) > Bob > - -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:30:59 up 3 days, 4:05, 7 users, load average: 1.13, 1.01, 0.78 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
