you might have to make a new initrd and set grub to point to that.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Margaret_Doll wrote:
> I am missing something with the data=writeback option in /etc/fstab
> I put that in place of the "defaults" for the system disk partitions
> and now
> only / gets mounted and it is in
I am missing something with the data=writeback option in /etc/fstab
I put that in place of the "defaults" for the system disk partitions
and now
only / gets mounted and it is in a read-only mode.
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 10:58 PM, Justin Zygmont wrote:
I never noticed any difference. Try
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:01, JD wrote:
> Hallo list,
> I have a "feeling" that ext3 is much slower than ext2. My hadrdrive
> blinks more often after I let RH8 formatted it with its favorite ext3;
> not to mention the noise from the harddrive rotation.
> As I said, it's just a "feeling" so please
> ext2 distro on there now. Honestly, I can't really tell a difference
> between ext2 and ext3, but my laptop is fairly new (2 Ghz P4). I like
> having the extra protection of ext3/reiserfs.
and I have a fairly slow computer (p-200) and I can't even tell the
difference. There should be very
JD wrote:
Make sense! I'm always a linux laptop user [this time is on vaio]. That
"slower" feeling comes because, like if I fire up the konsole then it
takes a second or two before the prompt shows up. Firing up other apps
is also the same, it always makes the HD seem to work extra harder.
In th
I found ext3 much slower on my laptop when it was first installed.
However, after adding "data=writeback" to the /etc/fstab settings
for /, my system is now "fast enough".
Tom
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 19:01, JD wrote:
> Hallo list,
> I have a "feeling" that ext3 is much slower than ext2. My hadr
Michael Stack wrote:
I recently read an interview w/ one of the maintainers of ext3, and they
mentioned that it generates quite a bit more drive activity than ext2. For
that reason, they recommended against using ext3 for laptops. As to whether
it's slower or not, I have to imagine that the journa
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:22:14 +0200, Jason Dale wrote:
> Ext3 came into the picture from around RH 7.2, and it comes with some
> Journaling features designed to make your file system recover from crashes
> better than ext2 did.
>
> Because of this jo
Hi There!
Ext3 came into the picture from around RH 7.2, and it comes with some
Journaling features designed to make your file system recover from crashes
better than ext2 did.
Because of this journaling, there will be a performance decrease, which
is probably what you are experiencing.
Jason D
I never noticed any difference. Try adding data=writeback to the
appropriate place in the fstab and see if that helps...
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, JD wrote:
> Hallo list,
> I have a "feeling" that ext3 is much slower than ext2. My hadrdrive
> blinks more often after I let RH8 formatted it with it
I recently read an interview w/ one of the maintainers of ext3, and they
mentioned that it generates quite a bit more drive activity than ext2. For
that reason, they recommended against using ext3 for laptops. As to whether
it's slower or not, I have to imagine that the journaling has some overhead
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