That was exactly my reasoning behind selecting XFS as the main filesystem for my Laptop (IBM ThinkPad T41p), which I use as my everyday desktop/workstation.
Previously, in an IBM ThinkPad A31p I used Reiserfs, and I never had any problems, the thing ran really well, I just wanted to try XFS because a bloke (that seems to know a lot about Linux) told me that it was very good. I guess time will tell... Regards, -AR On 4/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > >On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > > > > >>power failure better than XFS from this test, but a complete power > >>failure on a laptop is trivially easy to avoid...just don't remove the > >>battery! Heck, one of the rubber feet on the bottom of my laptop is > >> > >> > > > >I suppose batteries never run out in your world view. > > > > > > Don't be silly...of course they do. That's why I run klaptop to monitor > the status of my battery and give me warnings when it is getting low in > the rather frequent event when I forget to plug in the power. My point > wasn't that a laptop will run forever on batteries, it was that the > battery will last a hell of lot longer than it takes "shutdown -h now" > to run. Even if your battery is completely useless otherwise, you > almost always have enough time to save your work and shutdown the system. > > Ok, so one might counter "what if someone isn't monitoring the laptop, > and the battery runs out." The same argument could be made about using > XFS in a data center environment..."you don't want to do that, because > the UPS batteries could die, or the generator could run out of fuel." > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
