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I am tired of watching fsck check my filesystem when my eeepc 901 shuts down abruptly due to a crash. I know that with a journaling filesystem, I won't have to wait for a check. However, I am well aware of the poor I/O performance of the SSD, so I can imagine using a journaling filesystem being even more frustrating, since there will be constant writes to the journal?
I will buy a new laptop without such a crummy ssd someday but, is there anything I can do now, on the software side of things?
1What are you on now? ext2/3 are older than ext4, and ext4 was made in the knowledge of ssds. – tobylane – 2011-02-14T17:40:33.897
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You might also want to read Aligning filesystems to an SSD’s erase block size by Theodore Ts'o (one the men behind ext4).
– Cristian Ciupitu – 2011-02-15T01:28:29.240"I am well aware of the poor I/O performance of the SSD" - Are you sure? My SSD is for sure way faster than my (fake) RAID-10. – maaartinus – 2011-02-15T05:14:56.923
@tobylane i'm on ext2 – freedrull – 2011-02-15T06:12:30.990
@maaartinus This model has a 4gb master ssd, and a 16gb slave. The slave drive is much slower. http://www.shinyplastic.com/archives/05-21-2008-ultraportables-eee-pc-900-ssd-is-slow.php
– freedrull – 2011-02-15T06:15:16.680