On 25 April 2017 at 14:42, Wayne Blaszczyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 13:28 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > > Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm > thinking > > > of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as > > > Samsung 960 EVO). > > > > > > I assume that going through the entire LFS installation from square one > > > will work with these devices. But are there any downsides to using > them, > > > as opposed to using exclusively hard drives? Will compiling LFS run > > > significantly faster if I install the host Linux system on the SSD? > > > > > > Years ago I installed a host system (Fedora) on /dev/sda and LFS on > > > /dev/sdb with no problems. > > > > There are really no issues with using an SSD drive with LFS, You may > want > > to give some options in fstab for mounted partitions. For example: > > > > /dev/sda4 / ext4 noatime,discard 1 1 > > I've read that certain SSD don't like discard including some Samsung > devices. > I've removed this option from new system. > See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/56951/#post-328912 > and I'm using a periodic TRIM instead. > See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives > > A few years ago I had an SSD fail after a very short period owing to a known bug in the firmware. I think the drive was Crucial or Sandisk, but I can't remember for sure. I downloaded new firmware, and the tool to install it would only run under Windows; very annoying. Richard
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