> Partioning scheme and formatting tricks for optimal performance:
> http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/
Great resource. I wonder if any members found objections posted by
'starfry' at the bottom of the article worthy of consideration. Or did
th
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:29 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
>
> > > Or I could try btrfs, which has an ssd mount option.
> >
> > Ugh. Even on-disk format is not finalized yet.
>
> That's OK, I'm not using it on my backup server :
Sorry to send
On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:29 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
> > Or I could try btrfs, which has an ssd mount option.
>
> Ugh. Even on-disk format is not finalized yet.
That's OK, I'm not using it on my backup server :)
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 12:06:04 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
> > Delaying commits with ext4 and/or laptop-mode will reduce the wear-down
> > of your SSD but it might as well freeze your system when the actual
> > commit takes place b
On Sat, 30 May 2009 12:06:04 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Delaying commits with ext4 and/or laptop-mode will reduce the wear-down
> of your SSD but it might as well freeze your system when the actual
> commit takes place because these things tend to have a terribly low
> write performance.
Tha
On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:39:09 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > I found the best way to deal with the Eee 900's two drives was to
> > create a small root partition (I used 200M) and swap on sda. Then
> > make the rest of sda and all of sdb into an LVM volume group. I still
> > use ext3 for /, but it c
Maxim Wexler schrieb:
> On 5/28/09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote:
>>> Maxim Wexler schrieb:
Hi group,
For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk
fails: No space left on device.
df -i reveals no m
On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:39:09 -0600
Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Just got back from Circuit City or whatever it's called with a 16G SD
> card and I'm steeling myself for the big task ahead. Just what do you
> have under root? How did you format the rest?
ext4 or reiserfs for root.
reiserfs for portage
> I found the best way to deal with the Eee 900's two drives was to create
> a small root partition (I used 200M) and swap on sda. Then make the rest
> of sda and all of sdb into an LVM volume group. I still use ext3 for /,
> but it contains so little that inodes are not an issue. You definitely
>
On Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:58 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> tmpfs/tmptmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
>
> Does this have anything to do with the inode issue?
Only that it reduces the number of inodes needed by mounting/tmp on a
ramfs.
> What's the best fs for a 4G SSD?
Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Ok, thanks everybody, getting ready to dive in and fix this thing. Two
> more questions please:
>
> I modified the bottom of /etc/fstab to look like this according to a
> post in the eee forum:
> ...
> #shm/dev/shmtmpfsnodev,sosuid,noexec 0 0
> tmpf
Ok, thanks everybody, getting ready to dive in and fix this thing. Two
more questions please:
I modified the bottom of /etc/fstab to look like this according to a
post in the eee forum:
...
#shm/dev/shmtmpfsnodev,sosuid,noexec 0 0
tmpfs/tmptmpfs defaul
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Maxim Wexler schrieb:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk
> > fails: No space left on device.
> >
> > df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong.
> > Lots of 'No space l
On Thursday 28 May 2009 23:43:19 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the
> > partition with a higher amount of inodes.
>
> Everything? Won't that copy over the extraneous inodes?
You appear to not understand what an inode is.
The inode IS THE FILE.
> My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the
> partition with a higher amount of inodes.
Everything? Won't that copy over the extraneous inodes?
>
> This will create a file system with three times as many indoes as you
> had before.
Is 3x enough? I haven't even gotten off t
On Thursday 28 May 2009 17:46:03 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk
> fails: No space left on device.
>
> df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong.
> Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with refer
Maxim Wexler schrieb:
> Hi group,
>
> For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk
> fails: No space left on device.
>
> df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong.
> Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to
> /var/lib/iinit.d/*
On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:46:03 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> I know 4G is pretty small by today's standards but apart from xorg and
> firefox everything else on this unit is command-line type utilities
> and such. That can't account for 4G already.
It can if you have $DISTDIR and $PORTAGE_TMPDIR in
Hi group,
For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk
fails: No space left on device.
df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong.
Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to
/var/lib/iinit.d/* in the boot console. And this gem: '*E
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