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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:36:59AM +0800, microcai wrote:
> rsync is doing bunch of  4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree,
> that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror.
> 
> 
> I have a 2year old SSDs that have reported Write Amplification Factor
> of 26. I think the only reason is that I put portage tree on this SSD
> to speed it up.
> 
> what is the suggest way  to reduce Write Amplification  of a portage sync ?
> 

Maybe the only solution is that move the portage tree to HDD??