file system reommendations for SSD...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:21:31AM -0500, Isaac Connor wrote:
> 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.

Good point.  Should have remembered to mention that.

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