From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Werner Fischer Subject: -E stride and stripe-width necessary for best performace of SSDs? Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:30:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1309512654.5729.15.camel@werner-t410> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from srv.wefi.net ([80.66.32.76]:42324 "EHLO srv.wefi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755323Ab1GAJhQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2011 05:37:16 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.2] (88-117-100-105.adsl.highway.telekom.at [88.117.100.105]) by srv.wefi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB971495614 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:30:49 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, * I want to optimize ext4 on my SSD (Intel 320 Series 160 GB). * There are some sites recommending the use of the -E stride and -E stripe-width paramaters, like http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/Optimizing-Linux-for-SSD-usage * I know these parameters are useful for RAIDs, but I don't think that they have any advantages for SSDs. Can anybody with deeper ext4 knowledge confirm if I'm right? Best regards, Werner