On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:22, Michal Frackowiak wrote: > Mark Janssen wrote: > > >On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:02, Michal Frackowiak wrote: > >If you want more battery life, stick with ext2, since the journaling > >filesystems keep the harddisk spinning all the time. > > > No way to stop it? No standby?
Sure you can go to suspend... but when not suspended the disk will spin up every 5-15 seconds to write journal data. Using ext2 and noflushd you can hold this back. this doesn't work for ext3 and reiser. > >Installing reiser is harder, since you need to install somewhere, get a > >reiser capable kernel, reboot with that, make reiser filesystems and > >move your data from the 'somewhere' location to the real filesystems. > > > I think one of boot disk of woody is reiserfs-ready. So I could just > start with a plain hdd. A lot has changed the last year(s)... it's easier now indeed. Still... I think ext3 is a safer bet (you can always go back to ext2, for rescue disks etc) > >I've had reiserfs on my laptop for a long time... but at the last > >disk-crash (all filesystems broken) I switched to ext3 (because it was > >in 2.4 kernel then, and I didn't want to go through all the hassle of > >reiser installation etc. > > > Did I mention the system MUST be stable ;) I had some very unstable hardware... It got too hot and crashes... fan control in this laptop is seriously borked... (It's not a linux problem) I always recommend using a 2.4 kernel, especially on 'desktop' systems (including laptops) since 2.4 responds so much better. I'm currently using 'unstable' with a 2.4.19-pre5 kernel. (Using AA-patches). Since installing the AA patches it's been stable again, where it used to crash due to 'out-of-memory' problems multiple times a day before. It's been running all night (downloading news) and all day now, usually it wouln't have survived that... now it's still going strong :) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
