[ltp] Re: solid state drive?

[Laurent]

Hi,

> Does write performance really matter though? I'd have thought that it  
> should be OK to live with background writes - as long as we have enough  
> RAM. Linux has been doing this for ages - try saving a file to floppy,  
> and you'll notice that the application thinks the file has been saved  
> before the floppy disk has finished writing.

Linux is fine with background writes. But a lot of programms sync at the
end of writes (like opera and most java-based stuff). And that blocks
till the write is 100% done.

It's fine if all programms allow lazy writes. But that's not the case.

cu