On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 12:56:24PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > > Second, I was wondering if anyone is running btrfs over dmcrypt on an SSD > > and what the performance is like with write cache turned off (I'm actually > > not too sure what the impact is for SSDs considering that writing to flash > > can actually be slower than writing to a hard drive). > > Performance without the cache on is going to vary wildly from one SSD to > another. Some really need it to give them nice fat writes while others > do better on smaller writes. It's best to just test yours and see. > > With a 3.2 kernel (it really must be 3.2 or higher), both btrfs and dm > are doing the right thing for barriers.
Thanks for the answer. Can you confirm that I still must disable write cache on the SSD to avoid corruption with btrfs on top of dmcrypt, or is there a chance that it just works now? Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html