On 25/10/2004 at 16:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Is it still a problem to run ext3 ? I heard in the past that something like > XFS is to be prefered, or simple non-journaled ext2, since ext3 needed to do > regular disk accesses, and thus waking up the disk.
Not at all using laptop-mode. Laptop-mode delays disk writes (including "normal" and journal data). Nowadays, using laptop-mode with a *very* high commit interval my iBook's hd only spins up on cache read misses (and then, upon that spin-up, laptop-mode flushes dirty buffers to disk). Very handy all in all. Btw, all the filesystems on my laptop are ext3. -- Kiko Private mail is preferred encrypted: http://www.pirispons.net/pgpkey.html
