On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 15:15, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > > > > > * use of devfs, murasaki for hotplug, choice between ext2 and ext3, etc. > > > > > (this might be a little too low-level for this discussion i must admit). > > > > The user should not be able to choose. Let's just use ext3 and be done > > > > with it :) > > > > > > No, using ext2 has its uses. A journaled filesystem on a laptop is > > > pretty bad for the batteries. And it's an easy question to ask. > > I might be totally clueless here, but I always felt that an installer > should explain to me why I would choose one over the other. I agree that > sensible defaults are a good thing, and a project like this should make > the decision of using xfs, ext3, jfs or reiserfs for the user IMO. > But when it's between ext2 and ext3, the installer should tell me "these > are the cases where you would want ext2". This is something that the > installers I've used neglect to tell me. > > I do have to admit that I didn't know there was merit in using ext2 on a > laptop. I had huge problems with apm in the past causing the whole > machine to lock up, so I was glad to finally have ext3 support. What > exactly is the advantage of ext2 ? Minimum hard disk activity, it's easier on the batteries than ext3 that syncs to disk too often. Of course that doesn't apply to crashy laptops ;) If you use ext3 on a laptop you should mount this partition with the noatime option, so it doesn't write stuff to disk every time you access a file that's already cached. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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