Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

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On 06/11/2010 09:14 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>> * if you don't much care for the logs in /var/log, turn them off or
>>> redirect to a ram drive -- reduces number of writes
>>
>> With the MTBF of the SSDs today, this is unnecessary.
>
> For me, it wasn't MTBF that was a concern so much as write speed. This
> is also why I chose ext2 over ext3/4. I reasoned that, without journal
> writes, the processor would spend less time in IOWait. Do you think
> that reasoning is flawed?
>
> -Alan

A better option is ext4 without a journal. I believe that this is what 
Google uses (might be ext3, but definitely without a journal). Lots of 
code improvements since ext2.

Regards,

John

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