[ltp] SSD optimisation

[Leon Brokken]

On 01/13/2011 10:02 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 21:12:12 -0500, Dan M. wrote:
>> If your distro supports trim and your ssd has poor garbage collection
>> I would suggest the discard option in your /etc/fstab in order to use
>> the kernel trim feature.
> AFAIK this requires a 2.6.36 kernel if used together with LVM. 
> Otherwise the filesystem won't be able to send a discard command to the
> device. If the distribution uses an older kernel, trim won't work on
> LVM.
Thanks for the replies.

I'm running an up to date kernel. Would you recommend to use LVM on the
Intel SSD to benefit from trim? I have no idea about "garbage
collection" on this disk.

Leon.

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