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 1NhVPI-0008P9-S0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:56:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2750BE08F3; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6FAE08F3 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C2C11AD1 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:57:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 23162-10 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:57:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2C2ED11AD0 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:57:40 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B7B1478.40108@xunil.at> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:56:08 +0100 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100216 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 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] Gentoo on SSD References: <1266312515.4b7a65432cb30@imp.free.fr> <49bf44f11002161304u57179bedg40915fa01295354d@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f11002161327j23d6693fs39d34bd1eec57eb4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f11002161327j23d6693fs39d34bd1eec57eb4@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2a X-Archives-Salt: 65fb46e3-5eec-45c3-958e-8bb735feae2e X-Archives-Hash: 893ccbee6d730156beb9143b88ba39aa Am 16.02.2010 22:27, schrieb Grant: > It sounds like SSDs don't have the > projected longevity they did when I researched this a year or so ago. > I'm troubled by the ever-lurking possibility of an HD failure and I > thought SSDs would be my way out. Is an HD the best choice for > reliability? I still don't know. I had the impression that having my home-dir on the ssd lead to filesystem-problems ... maybe all those tiny writes ... I don't know. Could be fs-related as well ... Moved my home back to hdd as recommended by Volker here a few months ago. Only having my root on the ssd worked OK for quite some time (sidenote: how to do that on my thinkpad? Having it hdd-free is one main reason to move to ssd ...) As mentioned I faced some hefty crashes in the last days ... unfortunately I wasn't able to record the logs as the drive simply disappeared. I thought I had the latest "dmesg > myfile" on hdd but it was empty after a reboot .... Currently I am back on my raid1-hdd-root ... slower but OK ;-) The crashes happened with tuxonice-sources-2.6.32 -- dunno, if the latest ebuild brings some changes helping in this context. Maybe it's ext4-related as well ... you know, many moving parts in a modern system .... Stefan