which file system to use

[Alexander Skwar]

· Tim Penhey <tim at penhey.net>:

> Great, as long as you are not installing on a laptop.  As mentioned on an
> earlier thread, ext3 does disk access every 30 seconds, never allowing a
> laptop harddisk to spin down, and hence sucks the battery life.
> 
> Given that I'm about to install on my laptop, if not ext3, then what?

reiserfs or JFS. As said before: I'd recommend JFS.

But it should be mentioned, that this "forced commit" of ext3 can be
turned off. In the case of a crash, you'll risk losing data, though
(the data which hadn't been written after the last commit, IIRC).

Alexander Skwar
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