On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:31 PM, drago01 wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >>>> Yes, such a feature was submitted[1], but it has never been committed by >>>> Chris AFAIK. There is also a OS-agnostic method of this. Seagate XT drives >>>> use a small SSD as a cache. Then there is also a Windows method with >>>> Intel's SSD Cache using a dedicated SSD as only a cache. Either way gives >>>> you a similar result. >>> >>> I think I'd rather see a portion of the SSD be a discrete device so that >>> the system and application scratch/swap can be pointed to it - >> >> Swap? Really? That is a waste of (expensive) disk space. There is no >> point on having swap on SSD if you have another disk around. You >> wouldn't notice any speed difference if your system starts swapping >> you are in serious trouble (i.e everything crawls) the best fix here >> is to just buy RAM which is *very* cheap now days. > > > You're probably right that system swapping is a situation to be avoided. But > I can imagine runaway situations that might be more easily recovered from > with swap on SSD, just because everything won't come to a complete crawl. >
It will come to a complete crawl which was exactly my point, faster storage does not really help you in that situation. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel