On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:41PM +0100, Tobias Eichert wrote:
> Hello XFS ML,
>
> I use XFS on an IBM Thinkpad with a 60GB harddisk. My question is:
> Are there any recommended settings for using XFS on a laptop?
>
> Last time I started an OpenGL app in fullscreen mode I experienced a system
> freeze (couldn't even switch to a console to kill that process) and so I had
> to do a system restart without unmounting my partitions in a friendly
> manner. ;)
> After everything was up and running again I noticed that KDE had a different
> look&feel - for example, colors and font sizes changed to their default
> values (which makes me believe that some of the config files got corrupted
> and KDE using the default ones). This assumption is stressed by the fact
> that, on a previous installation and system freeze I indeed had corrupted kde
> config files (using XFS).
gnome/kde tend to be bad about holding various config files open and
writing to them frequently, so i would recommend using chattr -R +S on
your .kde directory and other config directories/files. that should
ensure they never get blocks of NUL bytes on bad shutdowns.
> Are there any recommeded settings (especially mount and sysctl options) for
> XFS (on a laptop)? Note that this system freeze isn't really laptop specific
> (why should it be? ;)) but if there are XFS-on-a-laptop users on this list
> I'd really appreciate some hints, tipps and tricks for running XFS as stable
> as possible. What about journalling / ordered data modes - commit intervalls,
> noatime, etc.. ?
noatime is popular on laptops to help keep the disk spun down longer.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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