From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions about 4k sector drives
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:13:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE83EB8.5060004@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1005050945220.3685@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2010, John Robinson wrote:
>
>> You can? Which one(s)? Would they be good for putting md bitmaps and
>> filesystem journals on?
>
> Yes. The Intel X25-V 40G drive is the one I would recommend, I use it
> as a system drive in one box, it's not as fast (linear write speed) as
> the X25-M drives, but it's definitely a step up from the 5400rpm 2.5"
> drive I used in the system before :P
>
2nd that, nice drive, cheap, many uses for it. In addition to bitmap and
journal (pick the right journal options and see a huge boost), putting
swap out there make hibernate one of those "wanna see it again" operations.
I really want to use it for write cache, but I guess putting a big
journal there has a similar effect.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
used in creating them." - Einstein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-25 11:45 Questions about 4k sector drives Florian Kusche
2010-04-25 14:43 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-02 23:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-05-03 5:54 ` Luca Berra
2010-05-03 13:17 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-03 13:30 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-05-03 13:38 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-03 20:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-05-04 13:24 ` Phillip Susi
2010-05-04 15:29 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-05-05 7:44 ` John Robinson
2010-05-05 7:47 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-05-10 17:13 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2010-05-03 20:19 ` Martin K. Petersen
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