[GRLUG] Raid, LVM, and Cheap Storage

[Bruce Smith]

>> Why does SuSE still have ReiserFS as their default FS?
>> That's just annoying.  I wish they'd change that!
>
> ?? I'm pretty sure the default has changed,  it is now ext3.  Boring,
> and safe, like a default should be.

I just installed SLES 10 SP2 last week, and the default was ReiserFS.

Maybe OpenSuSE has changed, I don't remember.

> I wonder why "noatime,data=writeback" isn't the default for workstations
> and laptops.  It is noticeably faster and adds ~15 minutes to my battery
> life.  Even the kernel devs recommend it.  At lease "noatime" for
> crying-out-loud.

Yeah, I don't ever recall needing to look at the access time of a file.

 - BS