On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:37:30 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > 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 > > You mean bug reports that got fixed? :')
when I look at the reiser-ml there is only one open bug I can see - and the last bug fix for some bug came in two days ago. Hm, in that time another XFS bug report hit lkml ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
