From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1391138010 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9C70E050C; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0A44E072E for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2012 09:25:49 -0000 Received: from wl-l3-55.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO localhost) [141.24.17.55] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2012 11:25:49 +0200 X-Authenticated: #4040096 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18WRHZh4MoW7BStK4Uq3wnRbVyvSv57X5rq3opDsy baPr6D9iocvCRP Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:25:48 +0200 From: Frank Steinmetzger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking Message-ID: <20120824092548.GA13922@eisen.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <503602B8.3050507@wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <503602B8.3050507@wonkology.org> User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r10) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 3f4fee04-2a4a-473a-b209-684b0667618f X-Archives-Hash: 886dd8dc2a519e0726cde7520cd41b89 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: >=20 > > I'm currently just using a single large partition & ext3. I didn't > > do anything special in fdisk so the partition might not be aligned as > > best it could be. I don't know. >=20 > [=E2=80=A6] > The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it=20 > would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M=20 > would avoid this. Unless the filesystem knows this and starts bigger files at those 512 k boundaries (so really only one erase cycle is needed for files <=3D512 k), isn't this fairly superfluous? --=20 Gru=C3=9F | Greetings | Qapla' Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook servi= ce. The advantage of RSS jokes is that you always know the newest one. --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlA3SJwACgkQGafpl66MV0xnTwCfbD6oxGDC1acvIOFNlNlT0WXM irMAoJ9o7tMaXvzS8RN2jkO51MZbq6/Z =VTFW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--