On Thursday 04 September 2014 11:57:19 Joseph wrote: > This is my first SSD drive 480GB (the only one in the box). I read about > all discard / trim option and just want to double check that I'm doing it > correct. > > I setup standard Gentoo and per instruction in Handbook. > Not I'm reading about discard > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD > > Do I setup: fstrim -v / > or discard in fstab: > /dev/sda2 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 > /dev/sda4 / ext4 > defaults,relatime,discard 0 1 /dev/sda3 none > swap sw,pri=3,discard 0 0 > > Can I use them both? > Do I need to add "discard" to /boot?
Another possibility is to use f2fs (flash-friendly file system) rather than the usual Linux file-systems. Then trimming doesn't arise. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git;a=summary I have it on a little LAN server here and it seems to work just fine. Fit and forget. -- Regards Peter
