On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel shared this with us all: >--} So now I am more or less ready to take the plunge. But I would >--} still like some advice. >--} >--} 1. Is it true that ext3 always lets you recover smoothly after a >--} "freeze and pull the plug", or after a power cut? Or are there >--} still "ifs" and "buts"? <snip> >--} 3. It is said ext3 is "slow". Does this apply to writing only, or >--} also to reading? I.e., is there a danger that when I play a >--} film with mplayer, I'll get the dreaded message "Your system is >--} TOO SLOW to play this"?
I can answer these two from experiences of laptops and desktops. I have only ever used ext3 except on one occasion back in 2001 where I had one partition ReiserFS for a short time. It didn't give me any problem, but I didn't like the mix. Recovery of the ext3 has been brilliant in my experience on lappys and desktops. Recovery just happens in fact I would have to read up on fsck or whatever it's called. Power down, by accidentally pulling the plug, power down by bushfires burning the poles. No matter. Every recovery is clean, seems no matter how many applications were running when the energy dropped out. I don't use mplayer, but before we had a DVD player, used to watch DVD's on the lappy with Totem without any problems. Hope that helps. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 ********************************************************** Never doubt the potential of creative idleness being a way of life. Man was elevated from the barbarian state by those who were idle, but thought a lot. ---------anon <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Debian - Just the best way to do magic.
