We are strongly being advised NOT to leave things on standby here as it's bad for the environment.
Caroline On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:46 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 27.09.2007 um 22:17 schrieb Phillip Susi: > > > Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> ReiserFS is effectively unmaintained. I've switched from ReiserFS > >> to Ext3 for > >> my installs too. While it works well now, bitrot seems inevitable. > >> > >> Scott K > >> > >> Note: This has nothing to do with an legal issues the developers > >> have. The > >> Reiser devs have been focused on ResierFS4 for quite some time. > > > > The point though, is still valid; reiserfs doesn't bother forcing a > > disk > > check every n mounts, so why does ext3 still do this? > > Not an answer, but I feel people should stop thinking about doing > anything essential at boot/shutdown time. Right now, many people > switch their computers on and off regularly, but the days of such > habits are counted. > > Think about Laptops and PCs with a reliable standby mode. Think about > PDAs, Phones, TV boxes. When not used, they go into standby mode. > Some of them don't even feature something like "off". They all get > booted once or twice a year, so the point in time "before mounting" > next to never happens. If you want to do maintenance, you have to do > it on the running system. > > > Markus, > writing from a laptop with about 2 months uptime. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
