On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 11:40 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/21/2017 04:21 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 20:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 12/21/17 19:06, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 18:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 16:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > > > > Oh, and BTW, you should consider enabling fstrim.target as this has been shown to > > > > > > > help maintain performance over time. > > > > > > > > > > > > fstrim.target doesn't appear to be in the standard repos. Is this a > > > > > > personal script? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know if there is a specific package that supplies it. Could be the kernel.... > > > > > > > > > > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls /lib/systemd/system/fstrim.* > > > > > /lib/systemd/system/fstrim.service /lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer > > > > > > > > That explains it. You had mentioned fstrim.target, not fstrim.service. > > > > > > > > > > Ooops... I should have said "enable fstrim.timer" > > > > > > Thanks for catching that. > > > > Thank you for mentioning it. I have an SSD and occasionally have used > > fstrim but wasn't aware of the fstrim.timer option. > > And for those of you using SSDs, make sure you have a good backup plan > in place. SSDs are fast and a lot more reliable than they used to be. > However, when they die, they die suddenly and catastrophically--and > typically with no warning. I make it a rule to back up to magnetic media > frequently as I've been bitten by that issue often in the past. I do have a nightly backup to rotating rust, but also I reserve the SSD for the root filesystem. It's only 120GB and I doubt that a larger one would make much of a real-life speed difference if I put /home on it. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
