Re: [tlug] SSD filesystem

[Phillip Tribble <ptribble@example.com>]

Kyle Hasegawa wrote:
> Seems everyone has an opinion on which filesystem and settings are best 
> for an SSD drive.  Some say journaling filesystems like ext3 will wear 
> out the drive sooner though opponents argue that failure from 
> overwriting is exaggerated.  Others recommend ext4 to get even better 
> performance out of a high speed SSD.
>
> I'm currently using the following at the recommendation of a blog post 
> from a person who seemed to know what he was talking about.
>
> / ext4 noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr 0 1
> /home ext4 noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100,nouser_xattr 0 1
>
> This is on a Latitude E4200 with the ultra 64 SSD running Ubuntu Jaunty 
> in case that matters.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> Kyle
> @kylehase
>
>   

Hello Kyle,

Please check out NILFS (developed by NTT) : 
http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=202

I came across this interesting article this morning. It is released 
under the GPL 2.0 license and is included in the 2.6.30 kernel.

Regards,

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