Hi, On Monday 08 August 2005 23:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? > I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a > sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that > also doesn't (overly) unneccesarily spin up the hard drive. > > I don't think that I'll use Reiser4, as it's lacking an > online fs resizer. At least making the fs bigger should be > doable while the FS is mounted.
I do not have any direct experience, but from all that I read over the years I came to this: XFS is very fragile, when the power is failing. XFS will replace damaged files with zeros this is both not acceptable. Reiser4 is alpha code in motion. I would not touch it with a 10 feet pole at the moment. Well 4 filesystems left ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
