Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 00:29, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Mikael Hallendal">
> 
> > Since it's much "safer" going with ext3 even on a laptop I can't really
> > see a problem. And let's spend the time on investigating how we can extend
> > battery time _with_ a journaling filesystem rather than on how to disable
> > the journaling.
> 
> It's less the journalling aspect, more the syncing.
> 
> Running noflushd helps greatly, noatime helps greatly, but you still have
> the journal syncing, which doesn't help. That's a hard one to fix, because
> without syncing, you're establishing a means for data loss. :-)
> 
> There are ways to go about it though, but with current technology, I'd go
> for ext2, and see if we can repair the situation in the future.
> 
> [ I'm trying to keep a level head about what we can achieve on our own, and
> what we should compromise on... Kernel level stuff is one area that we don't
> have great expertise. At least not at the "oh, well I'll just fix that up
> then" level. :-) ]

Yeah, but if we identify problems that need fixing in order for 
Linux to be a really great desktop OS, we should clearly 
articulate the problems on the linux-kernel mailing list
and ask for fixes.  I have always found LKML to be highly
responsive.

	Miles