which file system to use

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

how do you install in laptop mode anyway?

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 16:16 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> "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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