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    Filesystem to use with SSD?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by kwijbo, Jan 5, 2009.

  1. kwijbo

    kwijbo Notebook Guru

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    Im about to install Kubuntu on my notebook. Its a Dell M1330 with the 64gb SSD option, I believe it is a Samsung SATAII drive.

    I know nothing about Linux filesystems, does anyone have any recommendations? What about swap partitions, do I need that as well?
     
    kwijbo, Jan 5, 2009
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Ext3 would serve you well, however both ReiserFS and XFS are said to be good alternatives; from my own experience, Reiser offers considerable performance improvements over any other FS, but I have read good things about XFS as well.
     
    Bog, Jan 5, 2009
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  3. highlandsun

    highlandsun Notebook Evangelist

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    I've been using ReiserFS for a long time; I tried XFS but went back to ReiserFS...
     
    highlandsun, Jan 5, 2009
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  4. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Use any filesystem you want. The way SSD's work is they translate things internally where you have no access, so it doesn't really matter which filesystem you use on one. Just use the standard criteria for choosing what kind of filesystem you would normally use.
     
    Pitabred, Jan 5, 2009
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  5. highlandsun

    highlandsun Notebook Evangelist

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    The remapping that SSDs do varies in effectiveness from brand to brand and model to model. (Witness all the problems with drives using the JMicron controller.) A log-based filesystem that avoids overwriting existing data blocks will definitely perform better on a lot of the SSDs that are out there today. I would expect IBM's JFS to be the best choice but I haven't used it in a long time...
     
    highlandsun, Jan 5, 2009
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  6. Drifter7050

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    if you can do with the slight possibility of data corruption go with ext2 as it doesn't run background disk caching if i understand correctly. which should reduce write cycles on the drive
     
    Drifter7050, Jan 7, 2009
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  7. highlandsun

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    That's nonsense.

    Just use laptop_mode and increase the delay before the cache flushes.
     
    highlandsun, Jan 9, 2009
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