On Sb, 23 apr 11, 11:21:21, Brian Flaherty wrote: > > I assume this "read many, write few" idea applies to all SSD drives. > There seems to be differing recommendations about the extent to > worry about configuring SSD drives and I'm wondering what people > here think and do. > > Some links I've found with differing opinions: > > http://robert.penz.name/137/no-swap-partition-journaling-filesystem-on-a-ssd/ > > http://opentechnow.blogspot.com/2010/02/linux-ssd-optimization-guide.html > > The first is from 2008, whereas the second is 2010. Are the 2008 > thoughts out-of-date, and therefore go with the latter? > > I'm running ext3 with an SSD drive in a laptop (Debian Squeeze) with > LVM and disk-encryption. Already added noatime to fstab, but haven't > made other changes because I'm not sure how to balance the risks vs. > gains. > > Thanks for any thoughts and your time. There is an article by Theodore Ts'o (ext4 developer) regarding the impact of the journal in the total writes. As far as I recall it's minimal. You should be able to find the article on his blog. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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