On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on > > laptop with Gentoo. > > > > - ReiserFS looks unsupported now > > - ext3 looks slow some time > > - XFS maybe? > > > > Requirements are: > > - low memory usage > > - fast enough for laptop > > - good supported > > > > Any ideas? > > Plenty... Yes, all laptops need a journaled FS. The easiest I've found to > install and then admin is EXT3. If you feel that you need anything "more > powerful" then you should move your work to a desktop. > > As a side note, I've been using ext4dev as an expirement and I find it > quite nice. However, be aware, once you enable "extents" as a boot option > and cause writes to the disk (ie. save a file, etc)... you can never go > back to ext3 or plain old ext2 without a format.
if we are at recommending experimental fs, why not reiser4? Its atomic structure makes it very nice - and so far it survived a lot of crap it had to endure (like a lot of reset-button and plugs out of socket events). And reiser4 has less bug reports than ext3 :P But to get back on track: as long as he stays away from XFS it should not matter which fs he chooses (well, except jfs...) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
