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On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:37:30 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: |
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> > > Hi guys, |
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> > > I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on |
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> > > laptop with Gentoo. |
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> > > |
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> > > - ReiserFS looks unsupported now |
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> > > - ext3 looks slow some time |
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> > > - XFS maybe? |
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> > > |
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> > > Requirements are: |
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> > > - low memory usage |
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> > > - fast enough for laptop |
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> > > - good supported |
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> > > |
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> > > Any ideas? |
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> > Plenty... Yes, all laptops need a journaled FS. The easiest I've found to |
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> > install and then admin is EXT3. If you feel that you need anything "more |
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> > powerful" then you should move your work to a desktop. |
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> > As a side note, I've been using ext4dev as an expirement and I find it |
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> > quite nice. However, be aware, once you enable "extents" as a boot option |
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> > and cause writes to the disk (ie. save a file, etc)... you can never go |
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> > back to ext3 or plain old ext2 without a format. |
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> if we are at recommending experimental fs, why not reiser4? |
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> Its atomic structure makes it very nice - and so far it survived a lot of |
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> crap it had to endure (like a lot of reset-button and plugs out of socket |
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> events). |
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> And reiser4 has less bug reports than ext3 :P |
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You mean bug reports that got fixed? :') |
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> But to get back on track: as long as he stays away from XFS it should not |
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> matter which fs he chooses (well, except jfs...) |
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From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride |
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