which file system to use

[John L Fjellstad]

"Tim Penhey" <tim at penhey.net> writes:

> 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?

Install laptop-mode.  It will disable syslog so that it doesn't try to
write so much to the logs, and remount the mountpoint to use noatime
(no more diskaccess every 30 sec).  Also do some bursty writes, throttle
the CPU etc

Here was a linux journal article about it:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7539

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