which file system to use

[Alexander Skwar]

John L Fjellstad <john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org>:

> Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:
> 
>> The commit is not (only) because of atime. ext3 will commit to
>> disk, even if *nothing* has been accessed.
>>
>> That said, laptop-mode is a good suggestion.
> 
> Looking at the mount options for ext3, there is a commit option
> (although the default is set to 5 sec, so I'm not sure it's that which is
> causing the disk access).  If it is the cause of the disk access, I
> would think changing this option to something else (60 sec or whatever),
> might help.

Well - turning on/off the hd every 60 seconds isn't *THAT* much
better, is it? ;) I'd rather set it to 1 hour, or so. BUT: If
the system crashes, you'll lose the not yet written data. Ie.
up to 1 hour would be lost.

Because of this and because of the slowness, I'd not suggest ext3
but rather JFS.

Alexander Skwar
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