You want ext4 for the TRIM support for SSDs. And thank you for your patronage. :-) RHEL5.6 has ext4 as a supported file system. Make sure to register your RHEL system with Red Hat Network to get your updates.
-- Kyle Gonzales Sent from my mobile On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Patrick Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just plopped down $400 for a 6G 4 core 3Ghz box with respectable performance > ratings on PassMark. Its amazing what you get nowdays, Moore's Law is a > wonderful thing. > > I then added a OCZ 60G drive for Linux and proceeded to install various Linux > distros. > > I started with the latest Fedora but ran into some installation issues. > Anaconda has always had it out for me. Since I'm not really particular about > distro I moved > on to the latest Ubuntu. > > I am experiencing amazing performance with SSD. Everything is so quiet yet > so fast that > it's eerie. I'm old school and expect to hear the machine whine, hum and > grind when I > hammer it. The silence is, however, very nice. > > Unfortunately Ubuntu wouldn't run some of the enterprise software I want to > experiment with > so I moved on to RHEL 5.6 after plopping down another $49 for the distro. I > have to wonder > if CentOS would have been fully compatible, but suspect that the software > installer was > explicitly checking for RHEL. > > One thing I wonder about is with a total SSD environment is should I even > bother allocating > swap given that I believe that I have enough memory to handle the task for > which this box is > destined for? > > Given the nature of SSD it seems that allocating a swap partition will > greatly reduce the MTBF > of this drive since the write leveling for any swap spillover would be > confined to that partition. > Am I correct in my thinking? > > Should I favor one filesystem versus another for a drive of this type? I'm > currently using the drive primarily formatted as an ext3 filesystem with a > small swap partition of 2G. In the old days we'd set aside 1.5x or 2x swap > based > on memory. However given 60G of hard disk and 8G of ram can't see blowing > 12G on > a swap partition for a presumably antiquated rule of thumb. > > - Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
