[clug] best filesystem for solid state drive?

[Paul Wayper]

On 17/06/09 17:56, Michael James wrote:
> What's the best filesystem to use
> when bin, boot, lib, etc and usr are on a solid state drive?
>
> Ext2 with noatime?
>
> I've got an old sever that I'm booting off a compact flash.
> It also has a SATA drive to hold home, tmp, var, (the big or changing
> directories).
>
> The compact flash root filesystem won't be mounted read only,
> but isn't intended to be written much.

ext2 is probably your best bet here - we'll be in flying cars when they give 
up ext2 support in the kernel, and lack of journal makes it write less to the 
disk.  Turning on noatime is also a good idea.  Even with modest usage I'd 
expect your flash to last as long as the disks do.

Have fun,

Paul