On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:51:59PM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
But doesn't Btrfs compression work with small blocks?
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#Are_there_speed_penalties_when_doing_random_access_to_a_compressed_file.3F
Relatively small, which makes it fairly
Hi!
Em [2022-01-03 seg 10:03:08-0500], Michael Stone escreveu:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
>>Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime.
>
> This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing
> additional writes
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 10:33:59AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
Michael Stone wrote:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
> Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime.
This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing
additio
Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
> > Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime.
>
> This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing
> additional writes because compressed data is generally hard
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime.
This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing
additional writes because compressed data is generally hard to modify in
place without r
Em [2022-01-02 dom 23:38:48+], piorunz escreveu:
> On 02/01/2022 16:33, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
>> I am currently using compress-force=zstd:12 for the SSD and
>> compress=zstd:12 for both HDD (internal SATA and external USB3)¹.
>> Despite the strong compression level, performance is pre
On 02/01/2022 16:33, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi Piotr! Happy 2022!
Hi Jorge!
Likewise!
Have you revised after kernel Linux 4.15? The btrfs(5) manpage says:
Since kernel 4.15, a set of heuristic algorithms have been
improved by using frequency sampling, repea
Hi Piotr! Happy 2022!
Em [2021-12-08 qua 22:54:29+], piorunz escreveu:
> On 08/12/2021 19:35, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
>> - Why `compress-force' instead of simply `compress'?
>
> I've read very extensive discussion about that and came to conclusion
> that compress-force is better. It
Hi Jorge,
On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:39:59AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
> I intend to use Btrfs. This means if I later decide to use some of the
> unpartitioned space, I can easily and efficiently add it to the main
> Btrfs file system without directly using LVM (since Btrfs actually
>
On Ma, 14 dec 21, 14:30:10, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
> Hello! I apologize for the delay and reply below:
>
> Em [2021-12-09 qui 11:36:17+0200], Anssi Saari escreveu:
>
> >> I would have tmpfs on /tmp---I have read that long thread where
> >> someone alleged that moving /tmp to tmpfs makes
On 2021-12-15 15:51, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hello,
Em [2021-12-09 qui 15:00:43+0100], hdv@gmail escreveu:
Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't
necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I
doubt I have ever seen conky show
Hello,
Em [2021-12-09 qui 15:00:43+0100], hdv@gmail escreveu:
> Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't
> necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I
> doubt I have ever seen conky show me more than 35% use. And I am quite a
> hea
Hello,
Em [2021-12-09 qui 01:02:17+], Andy Smith escreveu:
> If you are still worried you could partition just half of it and use
> it as a physical volume for LVM, which you might want to do anyway to
> encrypt it (LUKS), Then over time you can see how much you have
> written, how much life
Hi.
Em [2021-12-09 qui 05:14:09+0500], Alexander V. Makartsev escreveu:
> So, if you plan to use NVMe SSD as a system drive, I suggest you also
> keep /swap partition
I am considering swapping to the SSD, yes.
> Also, I suggest you to make backups of /home on daily schedule to HDD,
> because d
On 12/14/21 9:39 AM, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hello!
Em [2021-12-08 qua 22:05:50-0800], David Christensen escreveu:
I would remove the 1 TB HDD, install the 250 GB NVMe SSD, and do a fresh
install of Debian 11 with MBR partitioning, 1E+9 byte boot partition
(ext4)
Why MBR partitioning
Hello!
Em [2021-12-08 qua 22:05:50-0800], David Christensen escreveu:
> I would remove the 1 TB HDD, install the 250 GB NVMe SSD, and do a fresh
> install of Debian 11 with MBR partitioning, 1E+9 byte boot partition
> (ext4)
Why MBR partitioning and why a separate boot partition?
> I would pu
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 08:08:22AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:26:24 -0500
> Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > Many laptops never need to go to disk-stored suspension; a low-power
> > sleep mode is all they need to get through to the next power point.
> > For the cases where it is
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:26:24 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Many laptops never need to go to disk-stored suspension; a low-power
> sleep mode is all they need to get through to the next power point.
> For the cases where it is necessary, it should be as reliable as
> possible.
Perhaps. But one reason
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 10 dec 21, 07:21:37, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
> > > > otherwise be treated as swap space.
> > >
> > > It still has to
On 10/12/2021 12:21, Dan Ritter wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote:
In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
otherwise be treated as swap space.
It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap appears to be the
logical choice for
On Vi, 10 dec 21, 07:21:37, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > >
> > > In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
> > > otherwise be treated as swap space.
> >
> > It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap a
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
> > otherwise be treated as swap space.
>
> It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap appears to be the
> logical choice for that.
No, it was a c
On Jo, 09 dec 21, 09:46:26, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
> otherwise be treated as swap space.
It still has to be reserved from somewhere, and swap appears to be the
logical choice for that.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On 10/12/2021 04:53, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 09 Dec 2021 at 17:12:01 (-), Curt wrote:
On 2021-12-09, hdv@gmail wrote:
Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long
term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as
RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM.
On Thu 09 Dec 2021 at 17:12:01 (-), Curt wrote:
> On 2021-12-09, hdv@gmail wrote:
> >>
> >> Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long
> >> term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as
> >> RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM.
> >>
> >> In a more p
On 09/12/2021 16:16, piorunz wrote:
I monitor SMART very closely.
Just spend last hour adding things to my Telegram bot which monitors my
server passively:
https://i.imgur.com/TnI0kex.png
https://i.imgur.com/3RQQWT1.png
All important SMART fields which are 0, are now hidden, I only see
non-ze
On 2021-12-09, hdv@gmail wrote:
>>
>> Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long
>> term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as
>> RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM.
>>
>> In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
>> otherwise be t
On 09/12/2021 15:22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
"Crucial MX500 250GB" is based on a NAND 3D TLC-3bit¹ ICs and rated only
100TBW.
That is a relatively small amount, if you compare it to the devices I
was talking about.
Now if you take 12% for 2 years of 100TBW drive, which may look like a
lot
On 2021-12-09 15:46, Dan Ritter wrote:
hdv@gmail wrote:
On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't ma
On 09.12.2021 15:22, piorunz wrote:
On 09/12/2021 00:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
I'd advise against doing extra over-provisioning and making /swap on
slow HDD.
IMO it is a thing of the past, especially on a home\personal computer.
Modern NAND technology and provisioning algorithms made SSD
hdv@gmail wrote:
> On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
> > Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
> > RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
> Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't
On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for
reliability, SSD durability¹ and p
On 08/12/2021 19:35, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
- noatime: I didn't know about this issue, I thought relatime was
efficient enough. Thank you for the tip!
- nodiratime: According to the mount manpage, noatime implies
nodiratime.
That's correct, I removed nodiratime.
- ssd: Does
Anssi Saari wrote:
>
> In general, I wonder what Debian's policy is on Guix? Does it create a
> FrankenDebian? I wonder the same about Debian-Multimedia too. Some
> poeple seem to hate that, I use it for GPU accelerated ffmpeg for the
> rare occasions when I need to encode video. And they package
On 09/12/2021 00:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
I'd advise against doing extra over-provisioning and making /swap on
slow HDD.
IMO it is a thing of the past, especially on a home\personal computer.
Modern NAND technology and provisioning algorithms made SSDs quite
resilient.
It is more likely
"Jorge P. de Morais Neto" writes:
> Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
> RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
> Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for
> reliability, SSD durability¹ and performance
On 12/8/21 6:27 AM, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for
reliability, SSD durability¹ and pe
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:14:09AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> Bottom line, there is a high probability that your SSD will work fine for
> many years and if/when it will die for whatever reason, just replace it and
> recover data (or a whole system) from backups.
OP: I agree wit
On 08.12.2021 19:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for
reliability, SSD durability¹ and p
On 08/12/2021 19:35, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi. Thank you for your response.
Em [2021-12-08 qua 14:49:50+], piorunz escreveu:
I understand you have one SATA 2.5" slot in your laptop and one NVMe
slot, and you want to utilize them both.
That is correct.
On the SSD I intend to l
Hi. Thank you for your response.
Em [2021-12-08 qua 14:49:50+], piorunz escreveu:
> I understand you have one SATA 2.5" slot in your laptop and one NVMe
> slot, and you want to utilize them both.
That is correct.
>> On the SSD I intend to leave 35 GB unpartitioned for extra over
>> provisi
On 08/12/2021 14:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
I understand you have one SATA 2.5" slot in your laptop and one NVMe
slot, and you want to utilize them both. My post below work on this
assumption.
For backups, I would continue my weekly manual
backups to my 1.5 TB external HDD with duplicit
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for
reliability, SSD durability¹ and performance.
I have looked at [Multi HDD/SSD Partition
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