On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:58:55PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >I was wondering... Why did you focus on XFS? What are in your eyes the > >advantages? I'm using EXT3 on my current i386 laptop (and indeed > >suspending the disk is impossible, but I favor that over spinning > >up/down all the time which isn't good for the disk at all), will > >XFS be better? > > > I'm using ext3 on my powerbook for a long time no and havn't had any > problems.
I would expect it to be, it's the same here... so the question remains, why XFS. > > What experience do you guys have with suspending the disk (and > > resulting laptop-usage increase) in a iBook/Powerbook? > > In my experience the most important thing to be able to spin down the > disk is not writeing to it all the time. This can be accopmlished with > Jens Axboe's laptop mode patch which is included in latest benh kernels. Yes, but this install (see start of thread :) seems to feature the 2.4.21 vanilla kernel. I haven't checked how the 2.4.20 is different yet. > You have to activate it with a little script (included in the kernel > sources) which enables it by setting some /proc entries. Of course not > writing the log to disk immediately somehow defeats filesystem > journaling :-( but you can have everything at once. No, but it feels a bit scary though. > With that i can spin down the disk with cpudyn (sone to be packaged for > debian). This daemon also slows down the cpu on low cpu load. OK, thanks, going to have a look into that package. Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Technology, The Netherlands | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
