<quote who="Glen Turner">
> Not at all. There will be a performance hit, but on a laptop
> side-stepping the need to do a fsck on a unclean shutdown is worth it.
Only trouble is that ext3 regularly syncs with the disk, so whilst it
provides some peace of mind, it sucks battery life.
> ext3 is a nice filesystem for a general desktop or laptop machine.
> Particularly nice is that is journals data, not just meta-data -- that is,
> much lower odds of losing that document you just finished.
By default, it uses ordered writes. You need to turn on full data
journalling manually. This is really good for mail spool partitions, as you
can turn off the directory sync attr, and use full journalling.
- Jeff
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