What filesystem for ssd? (f15)

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 16:11:31 UTC 2011


On 04/13/2011 09:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>> I'm planning a fresh install of f15 onto
>> Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G310
>>
>> What filesystem should I use?  Go for btrfs?
>>
> I wouldn't ATM. But I will share a thought on this, the whole reason for a 
> journaling f/s is to keep it sane in case of a crash, and avoid the time a full 
> fsck takes. Given the limited write cycles on an SSD, and the very small time it 
> takes to do seeks, I still wonder if a journaling f/s is desirable,

Btrfs is not a journaling filesystem.

Rahul


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