On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:25:24 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While watching S. King's IT on tv. tonight... with the wifey ofcourse... I > upgraded my laptop to use ext3. > > Once installed, I did a couple of tests... namely... I removed the battery > and then unplugged the wall adpater from the laptop... while in the middle of > a compile session... > > Upon reboot, it was proclamed that the root system had to be.... I think it > said "re-journaled"... anyway... an eye blink later I had my laptop back and > ready for use! Amazing! I did this a COUPLE of times and each time the > filesystem check was less than a second or two and this was on a 12gig file > system! The same fsck on a 12gig ext2 would last forever... > Greetings, This article raises concerns regarding ext3 with certain laptop hard drives. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html -- Chris Kassopulo _/\_ Linux User #199893 _/\_ Vector Linux _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
