On 03/11/12 13:19, Jason White wrote:
Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Are there issues with running Linux from an SSD, that one needs to take into account when first installing/partitioning/whatever?
It has been suggested here in the past that you should use the noatime option to ensure that not every access to a file causes blocks to be written to the ssd.
Given that the 'relatime' option is now the default (since kernel 2.6.30), it's probably not that much of a concern anymore. Yes, relatime will create slightly more writes than noatime would, but it will be considerably fewer than the old default option. (relatime only updates the access time if the previous access time was earlier than the current modify/change times; noatime causes programs like mutt to break) Going back to the original question ... I've had an SSD in a netbook for over two years now, Linux works fine on it. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 http://weblog.leapster.org/