Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I found that fstrim can't work on f2fs file systems. I don't know whether > discard works yet. Fstrim is to be preferred over discard in general. However, I suspect neither is needed for something like f2fs. Being log-based it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 June 2014 19:48:14 Kai Krakow wrote: > microcai schrieb: > > rsync is doing bunch of 4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree, > > that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror. > > > > I have a 2year old SSDs that have reported Write Amplification Factor > > of 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-20 Thread microcai
2014-06-21 1:48 GMT+08:00 Kai Krakow : > microcai schrieb: > >> rsync is doing bunch of 4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree, >> that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror. >> >> >> I have a 2year old SSDs that have reported Write Amplification Factor >> of 26. I think t

[gentoo-user] Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-20 Thread Kai Krakow
microcai schrieb: > rsync is doing bunch of 4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree, > that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror. > > > I have a 2year old SSDs that have reported Write Amplification Factor > of 26. I think the only reason is that I put portage tree on t