Plus I do all I can to ... minimize SSD wear. Plus todays modern SSD should work OK even without TRIM, and according to measurements they can withstand many times more the written bytes as their official specification.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. I'm striping across two physical disks. For performance. Any important > data should be either in git/hg repos or in the cloud. Plus I do all I can > t pre > 2. btrfs is part of the install, so I don't have to mock around like I had > to for mdadm and other stuff. ext3/ext4 cannot do RAID in itself. ZFS (I > know it supports RAID equivalent functionality and even snapshotting) and > XFS are great but why not use btrfs? > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 1) Why are you striping across a single physical disk? >> 2) Why are you using btrfs? >> >> /me uses XFS, ext3/4 and ZFS :) >> >> " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, >> the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all >> irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and >> warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all >> damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG >> episode "The Drumhead" >> - Alex Smith >> - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area) >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> After many tries here's how I installed: >>> 1. I gave up on the Intel RST type fake raid, I configured the >>> controller to be in AHCI mode in BIOS, which exposes both the drives. >>> 2. Both drives got partitioned the same: 512 MB UEFI boot (FAT32) and >>> the rest is btrfs. I add the esp flag to the UEFI boot partitions with >>> gparted. Since SSDs, there's no swap partition. (Also about SSDs: these >>> days relatime mount options is by default, so I don't have to add noatime). >>> 3. I then configured striping mode of btrfs across the two btrfs >>> partitions. >>> 4. Installed 16.04 Ubuntu MATE, the installer thinks it's installing >>> only on one of the btrfs partitions (maybe I have to rebalance later?) >>> 5. The installer still fails to install GRUB and the UEFI stuff. I had >>> to install boot-repair (starting by adding a ppa to apt-get), and went >>> through the instructions (like I did so many times the last several >>> weekends). This time it worked. >>> UEFI is in UEFI+CSM mode in BIOS. I believe I'm in non Secure boot mode >>> now, I'll try secure later, although that'd matter when I did the >>> boot-repair. We'll see. But at least it's booting now. >>> >>> I just don't know what to say after all of this plus the Win 10 upgrade >>> experience. Waste of so much time, everything should just work instead. >>> (I'm aware that the root cause of issue with the Linux is the neglect of >>> the platform from hardware vendors of emerging technologies, combined with >>> the limited nature of the community resources. At least I learned a lot on >>> the way about different type of NVMes, UEFI, ...). >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Did anyone try to install 16.04 Ubuntu flavor to any machine with Intel >>>> RST fake RAID0 NVMe SSDs? >>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/799225/ubuntu-mate-16-04-install-fails-on-an-mdadm-nvme-raid0-configuration-boot-repai >>>> >>>> I desperately need some advice. >>>> >>>> (Earlier parts of the ordeal: getting mdadm up and running when >>>> wireless is faulty: >>>> >>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/794218/getting-killer-wireless-ac-1535-working-for-installing-ubuntu-16-04 >>>> >>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/794763/how-to-determine-device-name-for-nmve-ssds-during-install >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Csaba >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. 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