file system reommendations for SSD...

[Isaac Connor]

On 13-12-20 11:18 AM, Matt Price wrote:
> forgot to say, thanks everyone for the advice -- I guess I'll use ext4
> with the noatime & discard options, hopefully that will be enough.
>
> I've never done fulldisk encryption, I guess I might as well give it a try...
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Don't use discard.  Have a cronjob do the trim every weekend or 
something like that. I use something like

#! /bin/sh
for mount in / /home; do
         fstrim $mount
done

The constant trimming adds lag to your operations.
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