--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
On 11/19/2010 01:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> All my research recommended NOT using a journaling
filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out
faster. Although, I did read one article where the
writer actually crunched numbers, and concluded that SSDs
made within the past couple of years have a mean "write"
life equal to a typical hard drive. However, I decided
to play it safe, and went with ext2.
>
I have too many personal failures with ext2 to go with it
any more. Now granted most of them were with DSL on a
wonderful Toshiba Libretto 110CT (64Mb memory max) with a
4Gb drive, but it got tiresome dealing with a broken drive
and needing to reinstall yet again.
A big thing is the noatime option. Turn this puppy
OFF.
I think the noatime option was set during the initial install on the EeePC 900 I
configured. I used Eeebuntu 3.0, not Fedora, and a lot of things that aren't normally
done on a typical install were as it was EeePC-specific. As the computer was a gift, I
can't check right now.
Thanks for the advice.
B