On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 12:09 -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm thinking > of getting an SSD device (the older type or the newer M.2 type such as > Samsung 960 EVO). > > I assume that going through the entire LFS installation from square one > will work with these devices. But are there any downsides to using them, > as opposed to using exclusively hard drives? Will compiling LFS run > significantly faster if I install the host Linux system on the SSD? > > Years ago I installed a host system (Fedora) on /dev/sda and LFS on > /dev/sdb with no problems. > > Alan
As mentioned in my previous email, I got a Sumsung 250GB SSD 960 EVO M.2 . Apparently the M.2 SSD drives are much faster than the SATA SSD drives. FYI, the device shows up as /dev/nvme0n1. Regards, Wayne. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
