[ltp] Re: solid state drive?

Laurent linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:50:57 +0100


Hi,

> What makes you say not to use ext3?
> AFAICT, it should not make much difference: at most double the number of
> writes, i.e. halve the expected life of your drive.

The journal causes a lot of small writes. Small writes have a bigger write
amplification, so it's a lot more data for the SSD. That makes it slow. I
don't worry about the number of writes, but i do want a fast system.

cu