--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Patrick Bartek <bartek047(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
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> 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.
B