Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: But the device is still doing wear leveling and bad block replacement so you're beholden to those algorithms and what you think you're allocating as sequential blocks of the flash are not necessarily so. Of course any

Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-24 Thread Todd Goodman
* Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org [150224 07:32]: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Bob Wya bob.mt@gmail.com wrote: I would always recommend a secure erase of an SSD - if you want a fresh start. That will mark all the NAND cells as clear of data. That will benefit the longevity of your

Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-24 Thread Bob Wya
I would always recommend a secure erase of an SSD - if you want a fresh start. That will mark all the NAND cells as clear of data. That will benefit the longevity of your device / wear levelling. I've been messing about with native exfat over the past few months. I found this to be a pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Bob Wya bob.mt@gmail.com wrote: I would always recommend a secure erase of an SSD - if you want a fresh start. That will mark all the NAND cells as clear of data. That will benefit the longevity of your device / wear levelling. Not a bad idea, though if

Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: Can you explain why a log-based filesystem like f2fs would have any impact on wear leveling? As I understand it, wear leveling (and bad block replacement) occurs on the SSD itself (in the Flash Translation Layer

Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 24 February 2015 07:31:26 Rich Freeman wrote: In general though there is a reason that sysadmins tend to be very conservative with filesystems. I doubt most even jumped onto ext4 all that quickly even though that was very stable from the start of being declared as such. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-24 Thread Todd Goodman
* Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org [150224 10:19]: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: Can you explain why a log-based filesystem like f2fs would have any impact on wear leveling? As I understand it, wear leveling (and bad block replacement) occurs on

[gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Some list members might be interested in how I've got on with f2fs (flash-friendly file system). According to genlop I first installed f2fs on my Atom mini-server box on 1/11/14 (that's November, for the benefit of transpondians), but I'm pretty sure it must have been several months before