On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 16:41 +0100, Conor Wynne wrote:
> To save the hdd should I drop journaling and mount noatime or what?
> Along with disabling cron and anything else that writes to the disk.
Conor,
I just came across this series of blog entries by one of the EXT4
developers on the subject of solid state disks and filesystems, very
interesting reading although perhaps not directly related to your
original 701 question
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/ssd/
.brendan (who has been mucking about with a Samsung SLC drive recently)
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