Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-11 Thread Grant
Josh Saddler had a couple blog posts recently about his adventures with SSD and Gentoo: http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/02/ssds-and-filesystems http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/09/ssds-and-filesystems-part-2 I've been following those (actually posted the first link in

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Grant wrote: Josh Saddler had a couple blog posts recently about his adventures with SSD and Gentoo: http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/02/ssds-and-filesystems http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/09/ssds-and-filesystems-part-2 I've been following

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
Josh Saddler had a couple blog posts recently about his adventures with SSD and Gentoo: http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/02/ssds-and-filesystems http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/09/ssds-and-filesystems-part-2

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-09 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. zflashpoint uses

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-09 Thread Eray Aslan
On 09.08.2009 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: [..] When you think about the situation, laptop-mode might actually make the situation worse. You see, it was originally developed to help HDDs staying in standby for longer periods by delaying writes until a read action causes the drive to spin up

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-07 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. zflashpoint uses

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-07 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. zflashpoint uses

[gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-06 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. zflashpoint uses a 32MB

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-06 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. zflashpoint uses

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-06 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag. zflashpoint uses

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator. Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.