Gordan Bobic wrote (ao): > On 12/12/2010 17:24, Paddy Steed wrote: > >In a few weeks parts for my new computer will be arriving. The storage > >will be a 128GB SSD. A few weeks after that I will order three large > >disks for a RAID array. I understand that BTRFS RAID 5 support will be > >available shortly. What is the best possible way for me to get the > >highest performance out of this setup. I know of the option to optimize > >for SSD's > > BTRFS is hardly the best option for SSDs. I typically use ext4 > without a journal on SSDs, or ext2 if that is not available. > Journalling causes more writes to hit the disk, which wears out > flash faster. Plus, SSDs typically have much slower writes than > reads, so avoiding writes is a good thing.
Gordan, this you wrote is so wrong I don't even know where to begin. You'd better google a bit on the subject (ssd, and btrfs on ssd) as much is written about it already. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html