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 1MD0nR-0002TM-PE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:39:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAAC7E037E; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f198.google.com (mail-px0-f198.google.com [209.85.216.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78680E037E for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi36 with SMTP id 36so414845pxi.32 for ; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:39:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6SU20Bwi0iUeOxWLa3Swt7Eyxsmo22/cGawAbFs1bWc=; b=jEL9H0WHqBAsFvj+TEjD5aOkbu+qajQMhHjWSa7sPsbFHTcq7qrVcYZPs0r9xJOtO/ 5WAmFgzI3uJmTau7/MGOt4OtQJ9et0wXvxo27qwboBTZwv/FOTZaQ8n4iq2kZ+E1YT59 KlhQMz+wmRX/eGD5s563HORHRXTFuhSdxRRqM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BNshK+1s7HPTKc7diw6HVXvcvUI6OcUvtm+tmadvfQTlNA2j3pfs+rh0sZlBufih6D 4mWKswLkukUO5wd4drl37gF71QGCc69G+ZgmL9AcfxOywH0WRiAi/BRhlDGrp9+XBxST oddMAxVtH7jbWHvM6UN7kXqWbvYbP3eGAJS/Q= 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 Received: by 10.115.107.5 with SMTP id j5mr6674651wam.105.1244313552061; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:39:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A2A7AA8.4050209@robbieab.com> References: <4A2A7AA8.4050209@robbieab.com> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:39:11 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy From: Maxim Wexler To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c7825487-e1fe-41af-9cfd-dee0d7e656da X-Archives-Hash: e6d2654415fe74afc9e888ee7597b6f7 > > 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. It's not just the write life I'm worried about; it's booting into a system whose partitions no longer line up, as recently happened following an attempt to emerge mozilla-firefox. mw