which file system to use

[Florian Diesch]

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

> On 8/3/06, Tom Smith <tom71713-ubuntu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>     Just for the record, I prefer to have a balance of stability and
>     performance--but I hold stability in much higher regard than performance.
>     For this reason, I decided to continue using the tried and true ext3 file
>     system. It's been around a long time, has a proven track record of
>     reliability, and has robust and feature rich file system tools.
>
>
> 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.

I'm using ext3 on my laptop as *to me*[1] it seems to be the most robust
journaling fs. As I usually need accessing the disc when I'm working it
IMHO doesn't waste that much battery life (when the battery was new I
got about 4.5h with my Thinkpad R40-2722, which isn't that bad).


But it seems to me that the question "What file system to use?" is
today's replacement of the good old "What editor to use?" and
discussions about it tend to be more emotional than factual.



[1] I know others may have different opinions about that. 


   Florian
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