performance considerations

[dep <dep drippingwithirony com>]

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.