From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCwiy-0003en-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:18:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4712EE01E3; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rabble.robbieab.com (rabble.robbieab.com [213.79.38.74]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19359E01E3 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.72] by rabble.robbieab.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MCwiw-0001wL-9r for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:18:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4A2A7AA8.4050209@robbieab.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:18:16 +0100 From: Robert Bridge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090302) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e5ae3d9-178f-4504-bd9b-b4f265e0e9c8 X-Archives-Hash: 9f6ef82e9b7a99976196b04a59fd005d Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > More and more I'm coming across references to "cheap" ssds in the EEEs. > > http://www.hohndel.org/communitymatters/eeepc/best-filesystem-choice-for-the-eeepc/ > > recommends ext2. Which I found surprising, but the guy seems knowlegeable. > > Here is Theodore T'so: > > # mke2fs -t ext4 -E stripe-width=32,resize=500G /dev/ssd/root > > In his discussion of formatting the pricy Intel product. He doesn't > say if this would be worthwhile for the "cheap" type. > > hohndel doesn't specify any options, just says, use ext2. What does > the group recommend? > > Maxim > Theodore T'so is playing with Intel SSDs if I recall correctly, which are in a totally different class to what you get in EEEs, like they cost about the same as the EEE does. His recommendations are based on a SSD with good built in wear leveling, and fast read/write performance. ext2 is normally recommended for "cheap" SSDs such as are in the EEE because it is a non-journalled FS, which is kind of important when your disk has severely limited write life. At least, that is my understanding of the situation RobbieAB