On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:45:04PM +0200, Kiko Piris wrote: > 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.
Ah, cool. Well, only problem is that you loose security of data writes, but i guess you can hardly get both of those benefits at the same time. Friendly, Sven Luther
