Federico Lorenzi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM, ian douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So interestingly enough, writes were slower on ext3 than vfat on the >> 512MB card. >> > > Makes sense, ext3 is journaled, and using a journaling FS on flash > memory is generally a bad idea. Could you also try ext2? > > Thanks, > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > I had some performance issues using ssd on my laptops a while back. At the time I couldn't find much out about the various merits of different filesystems and block sizes. I recently searched again and found this document : http://www.usenix.org/event/lsf08/tech/shin_SSD.pdf
Looking thought charts ( I wish there was a podcast), it looks like a 4kb block size is best, and nilfs performance best as the filesystem. nilfs http://www.nilfs.org/en/ here's an interesting thread on using nilfs on ssd http://www.nilfs.org/pipermail/users/2008-February/000188.html Is nilfs availble for openmoko ? Regards Matt _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
