On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > In the last year, I have run XFS, reiserfs v3, and ext3 on my laptop. > I mostly agree with you, although XFS doesn't really replace entire > files with zeros, just blocks that have been allocated but not written > with actual data...so /var/log/messages is likely to get some zeros in > the event of a bad crash. Files that were not being written at the > time of the crash are not affected.
XFS is good for a laptop as it is less likely to suffer a sudden failure than a desktop, the battery acts as a UPS. As long as you run some sort of battery monitor that shuts the computer down cleanly when battery levels become critical, power loss should not be an issue. > XFS: aggressively caches, so might give you some power > savings...although real-world savings are likely to be slight to none. > Nice features (the only one that offers a free defragmentation utility, > even if it is brain-damaged). Cannot be shrunk, only grown. However, it can be grown while mounted, something that is unsafe with the other filesystems, and something the OP asked for. > Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower > performance for others. Also can only be grown. That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the filesystem must be unmounted. -- Neil Bothwick Windows booting: insert CD-ROM 2.
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