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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:47:01
Message-Id: CA+czFiCURNWnwX3hWkSQut2qMdKgj5Ln9tsjrMPVjmuHkUk5VA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
2 <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 19:11:06 schrieb Michael Mol:
4 >
5 >> Yet would potentially run afoul of the SSD's write block resolution.
6 >> And, of course, having the journal fail out from under me would be a
7 >> fair bit worse than the kernel panicking during a swap operation.
8 >>
9 >
10 > SSDs have this nice feature - it is called sudden violent death. Good chance
11 > that when it fails, all of it fails ;)
12
13 Yeah, which is why I haven't been keen on putting an entire filesystem
14 on one, and would rather have it as a cache; caches are, by nature,
15 temporary.
16
17 >>
18 >> I ran into trouble with Thunderbird a couple months ago, which is why
19 >> I had to drop from using tmpfs. (Also, I compile with -ggdb in CFLAGS,
20 >> so I expect my build sizes bloat a bit more than most)
21 >
22 > uuuh.. yeah.. 'a bit'.. you are a man of understatement.
23
24 :)
25
26 --
27 :wq