Laptops go into suspend mode, come out of suspend mode, support suspend to disk, etc. Most of the bugs I have seen mentioned revolve around this area. Also, laptops tend to run out of power and just go thunk (if no power management is configured) than desktops do. I will probably do what you did. Use reiserfs everywhere except where I do my multimedia work. How does ReiserFS perform for multimedia work? OK, or do I really absolutely need to use XFS? Thanks, --Craig On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: > > On 09/28/2003 11:39:27 AM, glimt wrote: > > I am trying to setup my new laptop to be a very friendly environment for > > multimedia editing and software development. I have been googling for > > several hours now and am having trouble coming to a conclusive decision > > over which filesystem to run. I am leaning toward ReiserFS, but have > > looked at XFS pretty closely. I have read a little on > > ext3, but what I have found seems a little bit dated now. Any opinions > > you guys might have would be very welcome. > > Honestly, how could the reliability of ANY filesystem depend on whether you're > using a laptop or not? I hightly doubt if your file system knows whether it's > in a desktop or a laptop in any way other than frequent power cycles. > > I have used all three, and I agree that EXT3 is not ideal for multimedia. > > Currently I use: > tmpfs for /tmp > xfs for any directories containing audio or video (usually /home) > reiserfs for all else (/usr, /var, etc.) > > I have had a reiser partition get screwed up, but only once, and it was > fixable. I'm very impressed with xfs so far, but be aware that it's the > latest version. > > The /tmp setting makes much more of a difference than anything else though... > > Austin > > -- > Austin Acton > Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate > Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto > MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca >
