also don't forget to mount your journaled (or not) filesystems with
'noatime' or 'relatime' (more recent addition to the kernel...)
options to eliminate the need to update timestamps on each read.
I don'thave the FR yet so I am not sure but checking for those options
in / partition also makes sense to gain startup and functioning
speed-up
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Andrew Bennett wrote:
> Journaled file systems perform lots of extra writes to the drive.
> Flash drives wear out a little quicker (in terms of writes) than other
> drives. Putting the two together means you're probably decreasing the
> length of your drive's life.
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