I'm about to do a fresh install of Debian onto a new box with a Crucial M4 128GB SSD. I want to ensure that I get the best performance I can out of the SSD so I want to make sure I take care of any partition alignment issues.
I have read tytso's blog post (http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/aligning-filesystems-ssd%E2%80%99s-erase-block-size) but that post is a couple of years old now and may not be relevant. Also, I cannot find any specific information on the M4's erase block size but some hints suggest it may be 512kiB, not the 128kiB used in that blog post (and the c/h/s settings no longer work for 512kiB alignment). It is necessary to worry about alignment anymore with modern SSDs? The Debian installer did not seem to have any special handling that I could see, so I suspect I would have to pre-partition the drive and tell the installer to use the existing partitions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f97.4de462f3.b4...@getafix.xdna.net
