[TriLUG] What filesystem would you use for a laptop?

[James Tuttle]

My T60 suspends to ram, suspends to disk, and awakes flawlessly.  I'm
using Ubuntu 7.10 with ext3 inside encrypted LVM containers.

Jim

Brian Henning wrote:
> Datapoint regarding suspend-to-RAM (standby) or suspend-to-disk
> (hibernate):
> 
> Granted, I haven't poked at it in an awful long time; it could be fixed
> by now..  but my Lenovo Thinkpad T60P doesn't play nice when standing-by
> or hibernating in Linux; the SATA device doesn't restart when the
> machine resumes, so hard disk access doesn't work.  
> 
> I've found that not being able to access the hard drive can negatively
> impact productivity...
> 
> YMMV, IANAL, TANSTAAFL, ITEOTWAWKI (AIFF).
> 
> ~B
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Kimsal
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 9:57 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] What filesystem would you use for a laptop?
> 
> FWIW I've been using ext3 on laptops for a few years now and haven't
> noticed
> a huge drain vs ext2.  I've not done comparisons though.  One thing I
> don't
> like is the 'no way on earth to ever recover a deleted file not in a
> million
> years' issue.  :(  Also, likely you'll be able to suspend the drive to
> RAM
> or disk, so the 'boot time' shouldn't be a problem often anyway.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> On Jan 25, 2008 9:53 AM, Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> It's been a while since I've set up a new system. I've never before
> used a
>> journaling FS, but am considering either riser or ext3 for the one
> that's
>> supposed to arrive today (woo-hoo). Comments? Does the journaling take
>> processor overhead, and thereby battery time? I tend to think of my
> laptop
>> as a portable peripheral to my desktop, so fast boot time is nice but
>> there won't be a lot of crucial data stored on the machine.
>>
>> Thanks-
>> Andy
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -
>> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>> Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>>
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