Gordan Bobic wrote (ao):
> On 12/12/2010 17:24, Paddy Steed wrote:
> >In a few weeks parts for my new computer will be arriving. The storage
> >will be a 128GB SSD. A few weeks after that I will order three large
> >disks for a RAID array. I understand that BTRFS RAID 5 support will be
> >available shortly. What is the best possible way for me to get the
> >highest performance out of this setup. I know of the option to optimize
> >for SSD's
>
> BTRFS is hardly the best option for SSDs. I typically use ext4
> without a journal on SSDs, or ext2 if that is not available.
> Journalling causes more writes to hit the disk, which wears out
> flash faster. Plus, SSDs typically have much slower writes than
> reads, so avoiding writes is a good thing.
Gordan, this you wrote is so wrong I don't even know where to begin.
You'd better google a bit on the subject (ssd, and btrfs on ssd) as much
is written about it already.
Sander
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