Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Thu Jun 10 22:06:21 UTC 2010


On 06/10/2010 02:56 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>   
>> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD.   How would it work under
>>> Linux ?   
>>>
>>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right now.  Is there a better filesystem
>>> for SSDs ?
>>>
>>> Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ?
>>>
>>>       
> Have you run an SSD ?  Is longevity really an issue or is it folklore ?
>
> Thanks
>
>   

Not really. Still too expensive for me to use in my main laptop.
I use SSDs on a few servers, but in read-only mode - did the alignment
and scheduler hacks for those.



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