I will second that. XFS is wonderful on a laptop. I have been too
lazy to make it work on th root partition, but I have a 16G home dir,
and it is mighty nice that I don't have to fsck the thing whenever
I run the battery out. It drains a good percentage of the battery
just running fsck on ext2!
Again, good work guys.
Steve
On Jul 10, 9:35am, Sidik Isani wrote:
> Subject: XFS mobile
> Hello -
>
> Not sure if SGI has much interest in this, but XFS is very impressive
> on *laptops*. The tricky part was getting root mounted with "noatime"
> so the disk doesn't spin up all the time. XFS didn't let me change
> noatime,osyncisdsync after the initial mount. And the kernel, even
> with the normal initrd tricks, only supports flags for ro/rw.
>
> Fortunately, the New Way using pivot_root provides a solution (but you
> must NOT name the linuxrc "/linuxrc".) The initial RAM disk contains
> my fstab and a script which checks to see what type of root filesystem
> is required, loads the modules (this works for NFS-root too) mounts
> root with all desired options, calls pivot_root and continues booting.
> All this actually works, and provided a test for these things:
>
> - XFS as modules (CVS, and later linux-2.4.6-xfs-07052001.patch)
> - "noatime" and "osyncisdsync" mount options
> - running with zero swap space
> - kgcc=2.95.3 (and "-O", not "-O2"), "586 w/o TSC" set for CPU type.
> - gcc=3.0 for glibc-2.2.3 and everything else.
>
> So ... not too much fun, because nothing broke. Keep up the good
> work and thanks for providing Linux with a great filesystem.
>
> Be seeing you,
>
> - Sidik
>-- End of excerpt from Sidik Isani
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