On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> >>> * The "discard" options is not needed if your SSD has enough
> >>> overprovisioning (spare space) or you leave (unpartitioned) free
> >>> space on the SSD.
> >>>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Jochen Spieker wrote:
>>> * The "discard" options is not needed if your SSD has enough
>>> overprovisioning (spare space) or you leave (unpartitioned) free
>>> space on the SSD.
>>> See http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg40866.html
Bob Proulx:
> Jochen Spieker wrote:
>
>> If you use TRIM (either using the discard mount option or using fstrim
>> regularly), your usable spare area is manufacturer spare area plus free
>> space on your filesystem. If you don't use TRIM (and don't keep
>> unpartitioned space), your spare area is
KS wrote:
> I have read some stuff on pros and cons for /tmp on tmpfs. One case case
> be a powerloss (just a desktop without UPS) or kernel panic and I loose
> files that I might have on /tmp temporarily.
Isn't the default to purge /tmp on reboot normally anyway?
man rcS
TMPTIME
Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Bob Proulx:
> > The referenced thread has much good information concerning trim (aka
> > the discard option) and I recommend reading through the entire thread.
> > You are fine with trim enabled. In some cases using trim may help.
> > In some cases using trim may hurt. I h
Jörg-Volker Peetz:
>
> The first call of fstrim after a reboot indeed normally seems to discard all
> free space of a filesystem.
It should discard all blocks that were not previously discarded. From
the manpage:
| fstrim will report the same potential discard bytes each time,
| but only sector
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> > * The "discard" options is not needed if your SSD has enough
> > overprovisioning (spare space) or you leave (unpartitioned) free
> > space on the SSD.
> > See http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg40866.html
>
> AFAIU, this discussion on
The first call of fstrim after a reboot indeed normally seems to discard all
free space of a filesystem.
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Bob Proulx:
>
> The wiki does say this:
>
> * The "discard" options is not needed if your SSD has enough
> overprovisioning (spare space) or you leave (unpartitioned) free
> space on the SSD.
> See http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg40866.html
AFAIU, this discussion only relates
On 08/07/14 09:43 PM, KS wrote:
> On 08/07/14 09:37 PM, KS wrote:
>>
>> Over the last couple of days I have tried to run the trim command a few
>> times and it seems to trim lots of bytes. 1) is that normal? 2) does
>> that matter if I forget it, and 3) is it better to run a cron
>> daily/hourly to
On 08/07/14 09:37 PM, KS wrote:
>
> Over the last couple of days I have tried to run the trim command a few
> times and it seems to trim lots of bytes. 1) is that normal? 2) does
> that matter if I forget it, and 3) is it better to run a cron
> daily/hourly to do that for me *if needed*?
>
Oops,
On 08/07/14 05:18 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> KS wrote on 07/06/2014 17:29:
>
>> What I want to know at this point is:
>> Is there anything else that is recommended?
>> The section on RAMDISK options on tmpfs, does that help?
>
>
> If you are going with /tmp on tmpfs and are using a graphical
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with
> alignment as all par
On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment
as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB bou
Rick Thomas wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment
> >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by
> >> most of the tools anyway.
> >
> > Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later
>
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment
> >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by
> >> most of the tools anyway.
> >
> > Agreed. No need t
KS wrote on 07/06/2014 17:29:
> What I want to know at this point is:
> Is there anything else that is recommended?
> The section on RAMDISK options on tmpfs, does that help?
If you are going with /tmp on tmpfs and are using a graphical desktop (X), I
recommend to set something like (sh syntax)
On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment
>> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by
>> most of the tools anyway.
>
> Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later
>
Bob Proulx:
>
> I am using a high quality SSD that has a signfican't amount
^^^
> of internal over-provisioning.
That's the funniest typo I have seen in a long time! :)
J.
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KS wrote:
> I have done the following for optimization (ref:
> https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization?action=show&redirect=SSDoptimization):
I wanted to say that I think that page needs an update for Wheezy. At
one time there were many things needed for SSDs. The biggest being
alignment to 4k A
On 07/06/2014 05:29 PM, KS wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to upgrade my system to amd64 and used that opportunity to
> install 2 240GB (1GB = 1000MB etc. unfortunately) SSDs on my rig.
[...]
> What I want to know at this point is:
> Is there anything else that is recommended?
Nothing that I am a
Hi all,
I wanted to upgrade my system to amd64 and used that opportunity to
install 2 240GB (1GB = 1000MB etc. unfortunately) SSDs on my rig.
The partition map is below:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:00 223.6G 0 disk
├─sda1
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