Ext3 users - Jan 2002 - performance considerations

greets . . .

i'm setting up a linux system on a little toshiba libretto -- p-166, 
64 megs, plenty of disk space, though -- and i'm wondering as to the 
performance effects were i to apply ext3. i presume that keeping the 
journal consumes some finite amount of resources; what i don't know 
is whether this is repaid or more than repaid in some other way.

advice?
-- 
dep

There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land;  
But the People in their weeping
Bare the iron hand;
Beware the  
People weeping
When they bare the iron hand.

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:20:11PM -0500, dep wrote:
> i'm setting up a linux system on a little toshiba libretto -- p-166, 
> 64 megs, plenty of disk space, though -- and i'm wondering as to the 
> performance effects were i to apply ext3. i presume that keeping the 
> journal consumes some finite amount of resources; what i don't know 
> is whether this is repaid or more than repaid in some other way.
I've got it on my libretto CT50 (p75, 32 megs), and I find that it's
*more*
than repaid whenever there's a crash (cisco wireless card seems to be flaky)
in that it doesn't take half an hour to fdisk....

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