On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Patrick Bartek <bartek047@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek <bartek047@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> [snip] >> > >> > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling >> filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out faster. >> Although, I did read one article where the writer actually >> crunched numbers, and concluded that SSDs made within the >> past couple of years have a mean "write" life equal to a >> typical hard drive. However, I decided to play it safe, >> and went with ext2. >> >> I still have F13 installed on mine but I used BTRFS with >> the SSD >> option and it seems to work well. I'm probably going to >> stick with F13 >> since it works well enough and the update cycle should slow >> down. >> Doing a lot of updates on an older EEEPC sucks (time >> wise). > > Have only heard of BTRFS recently and know little about it, but that will change over the next few days. > > I opted for ext2 because of the years it had been around, and thus, was very stable and as bug free as one can make it. And I was very familiar with administering it. I've been using on my Netbook for quite some time and so far no issues. My kids even helped "test" it. I'm using a striped LVM across the internal 4GB SSD and a 4GB SD card and my littlest "pushed" the SD card and popped it out. I plugged it back in and rebooted and it came back up clean as far as I can tell. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
