On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:31:28PM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: > 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. I'm very surprised. I'm using XFS on an ibook(I choose xfs cause at the time I installed it, reiser had endianness problems on powerpc) and I have no problem like this. Therefor I have no regret because of this choice. The only thing i did was to run hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda as soon as I have no more AC power.
> > > >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. there are debian-xfs boot disk too. And it is not hard to set up. Just some problems with yaboot boot-loader, but I managed to install it on a pc and a powerpc laptop just one last thing. as far as now xfs is not included in 2.4.X and proably will not. So when a new kernel is out with nice new features, you has to wait during a week for the patches beeing ready. jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
