[gentoo-user] ssd: using TRIM

[gentoo-user] ssd: using TRIM

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Greets, gentoo-users,

yesterday at last I put my Intel SSD X25-M G2 into my Thinkpad.

Works fine so far ...

I use the kernel 2.6.33-tuxonice on this machine, which should support TRIM.

I also use ext4 for / which also should support TRIM if I mount it with
the option "discard".

Is this enough to enable TRIM ? Or do I have to do anything else?

Thanks for any info, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] ssd: using TRIM

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 09.04.2010 09:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> 
> Greets, gentoo-users,
> 
> yesterday at last I put my Intel SSD X25-M G2 into my Thinkpad.

Additional thoughts ad "ssd, linux, laptop":

* running hdapsd seems useless now ;-)

* what about laptop-mode?

gotta look through /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf, maybe some
hdd-related settings are counter-productive now ...

* back then Volker recommended putting only stuff like / onto the ssd,
and /home on hdd ... that's not possible on a one-drive-only laptop.

Any additional maintenance-tasks to do in this case?

-

For sure, I will keep my old hdd, and pull images and backups from my
thinkpad every few days.

Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] ssd: using TRIM

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 09.04.2010 21:41, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

> For sure, I will keep my old hdd, and pull images and backups from
> my thinkpad every few days.

update: and now it's dead. The SSD lost its firmware and shows up as an
8 MB "Intel Bootloader".

Oh my.