On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: > If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of > discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the > disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for > performance is more or less inversely proportional to optimizing for low > energy consumption. So yes, it would be useful to have a > laptop-optimized version.
As far as filesystems go, pretty much everything that improves battery life does so by reducing the number of accesses - which also improves performance. I don't think that's the tradeoff you're thinking about. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
