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