Mark Janssen wrote: >On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:02, Michal Frackowiak wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>I am going to install linux on a Mitac 6120 (p3 700) machine with 12gb >>hdd. My question is however a general one: which filesystem to install? >>The possibilities are: >> >>1. ext2 - standard >>2. ext3 - with logging >>3. raiserfs - with logging >> > >If you want more battery life, stick with ext2, since the journaling >filesystems keep the harddisk spinning all the time. > No way to stop it? No standby?
> >Installing reiser is harder, since you need to install somewhere, get a >reiser capable kernel, reboot with that, make reiser filesystems and >move your data from the 'somewhere' location to the real filesystems. > I think one of boot disk of woody is reiserfs-ready. So I could just start with a plain hdd. > >I've had reiserfs on my laptop for a long time... but at the last >disk-crash (all filesystems broken) I switched to ext3 (because it was >in 2.4 kernel then, and I didn't want to go through all the hassle of >reiser installation etc. > Did I mention the system MUST be stable ;) thanx michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
