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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator")
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:40:37
Message-Id: 4A7B2381.4040007@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator") by Grant
1 Grant schrieb:
2 > Here is some info on zflashpoint:
3 >
4 > http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549
5 >
6 > It is supposed to be an SSD performance "accelerator".
7 >
8 > "Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of
9 > Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.
10 > zflashpoint uses a 32MB buffer for small file writes, combining them
11 > and dumping them as one big write."
12 >
13 > Has anyone heard of development of a similar project for Linux?
14 >
15 > - Grant
16 >
17
18 Sounds like laptop-mode to me (app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools). For ext*
19 file systems, you can also try the 'commit' mount option.

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