[mythtv-users] my experience with myth on a solid state drive

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 19:18:52 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> So, which filesystem would you recommend using with an SSD for a myth
>> boot/database drive?  I haven't really kept up.
>
> Again, that was another thing I read a lot about. People talking about
> various systems and why they are better or worse. A lot of people were
> talking about ext4 being bad because of (I think it was) the
> journaling and how that wears the drive out a lot too. Some people
> said go with ext3, others said ext4 with the journaling disabled. I
> just ignored all the fuss, used ext4 normally (I did NOT disable the
> journaling or otherwise optimize it) and it's been fine.

I get the feeling they're arguing over a weeks worth of SSD life...

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