Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:41:33PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote > hohndel doesn't specify any options, just says, use ext2. What does > the group recommend? This is in the context of "cheap SSD" diask drives. They behave differently from hard disks, so "everything you know is wrong" if you try st

Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > ext2 is normally recommended for "cheap" SSDs such as are in the EEE > because it is a non-journalled FS, which is kind of important when your > disk has severely limited write life. It's not just the write life I'm worried about; it's booting into a system whose partitions no longer line up,

Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Robert Bridge
Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, More and more I'm coming across references to "cheap" ssds in the EEEs. http://www.hohndel.org/communitymatters/eeepc/best-filesystem-choice-for-the-eeepc/ recommends ext2. Which I found surprising, but the guy seems knowlegeable. Here is Theodore T'so: # mke2fs

[gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-05 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, More and more I'm coming across references to "cheap" ssds in the EEEs. http://www.hohndel.org/communitymatters/eeepc/best-filesystem-choice-for-the-eeepc/ recommends ext2. Which I found surprising, but the guy seems knowlegeable. Here is Theodore T'so: # mke2fs -t ext4 -E stripe-wid