Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Hello,
Because many consumer grade SSDs are not over-provisioned by the manufacturer it might be nice to have an option, in the automatic partitioning, that reserves a percentage (or a choice of percentages) of a SSD and leaves the space un-partitioned. Reserving unused space on an SSD that is never written to helps prevent write-amplification and so preserves drive performance. The need for this is dependent upon how much/whether the manufacturer has over-provisioned the SSD. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_amplification If this is implemented it would also probably be prudent to suggest to those creating LVM physical volumes that they may wish to use a partition instead of a raw physical volume so that space can be reserved for manual SSD over-provisioning. Regards, Karl -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.9 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
