[ltp] Re: Set-up for an x301?

[Andrew Mason]

Just out of curiosity , what was the difference in battery life
between 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 ?

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> >>>*) Which file-system should I use for the SSD drive (or which
>>> >>>file-system should I avoid)?
>>> >
>>> >>I would use the default FS of your distribution.
>>> >>I'm not sure if there is anything optimized for
>>> >>SSDs yet.
>>> >
>>> > EXT3 it is then...
>>> >
>>> Some links you might be interested in:
>>>
>>> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52503
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9190
>
>> This whole SSD business seems to be full with superstition and "old
>> knowledge", or at the least different opinions:
>> http://robert.penz.name/137/no-swap-partition-journaling-filesystem-on-a-ssd/
>> The real truth probably lies in between somewhere.
>
>> However, the first three tweak suggestions of the zdnet link sounds
>> reasonable to me, even though the first tweak does not seem to apply for
>> the x301.
>
> Having looked at it in various different contexts (16MB flash on home
> router, 512MB flash on SD card for smartphone, and 120GB on SSD drive),
> I think my conclusion is that journaling is not a problem.  `swap' is
> usually not a problem either (assuming you have enough RAM that you
> don't thrash all the time).  `relatime' (or even `noatime') is also
> a good recommendation.
>
> As for syslogging, it's usually not a problem either, although you may
> occasionally get some nasty bug in some software that ends up spewing
> tons and tons of syslog messages, so I simply use busybox's syslogd
> which has the option to log to a circular buffer in RAM rather than
> to disk, which is usually sufficient for my uses.  It also eliminates
> the need for logrotate.
>
>
>        Stefan
>
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