Best practice is to format these with ext4, xfs, or btrfs and use the discard mount option :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM If you do some performance testing and see that using discard is considerably impacting performance then it is recommended to run fstrim in cron : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives#Tips_for_Maximizing_SSD_Performance On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > I am making the plunge and replacing my HDDrive with a solid state drive. > > Since EXT3 and EXT4 are journaling file systems, and SDDrives are pretty > fast, I was wondering if they are really any better than EXT2 with these > drives. > > Suggestions for good performance and long term drive life? > >><> ... Jack > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
