Hi Martin, I'm afraid we've had some different experiences... power outages plus ext3 sometimes gave me woes (all partition gone), while I've been using both JFS and XFS on my servers, PCs and laptops without a single glitch. After all, they are mature industrial standards. Some of these systems are many years old.
Oh, btw, a rule I always follow is trying to avoid to keep heavy loaded disks for too much time in a machine, with disk swaps when I feel it's the right time. Especially in laptops, I always prefer the 5400rpm versus the 7200rpm which go faster but offer smaller mtbf.... btw, my main 8 yrs laptop features a disk I changed a couple of yrs ago with ntfs, jfs and xfs partitions. 2010/7/12 Martin PelikC!n <martin.peli...@gmail.com> > 2010/7/12, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com>: > > Unfortunately the question was meant for a dual boot P3-M 256MB laptop, > so > > BTW: I can hardly think of a person I know who used XFS on laptop and > didn't lose at least subset of his data there. My suggestion: run, > before it's too late. Ext3fs works for me between Linux, OpenBSD and > Windows (even though I miss fsck, for which I have to use linux > sometimes). > > -- > Martin Pelikan
