On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >
> > 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 still have F13 installed on mine but I used BTRFS with
> the SSD
> option and it seems to work well. I'm probably going to
> stick with F13
> since it works well enough and the update cycle should slow
> down.
> Doing a lot of updates on an older EEEPC sucks (time
> wise).
Have only heard of BTRFS recently and know little about it, but that will change over the
next few days.
I opted for ext2 because of the years it had been around, and thus, was very stable and
as bug free as one can make it. And I was very familiar with administering it.
I've been using on my Netbook for quite some time and so far no
issues. My kids even helped "test" it. I'm using a striped LVM across
the internal 4GB SSD and a 4GB SD card and my littlest "pushed" the SD
card and popped it out. I plugged it back in and rebooted and it came
back up clean as far as I can tell.
Richard