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From: "norritt" <norritt@t-online.de>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: norritt@t-online.de
Subject: Re: Ongoing data reorganization/defragmentation?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:54:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5051D783.4000300@cube.nornet.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1209121411410.2222@new-host-2>

On 12.09.2012 20:15, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, norritt@t-online.de wrote:
>
>  From what I've found out it's a good idea to:
> - mount with noatime, discard (if drive supports trim)
> The -o discard option might be tricky since some devices still
> handles it quite badly and you can experience big performance drops
> (http://people.redhat.com/lczerner/discard/ although it is somewhat
> outdated already). But you might to try to see yourself if it does
> not hurt your performance.
>
> The other option would be to use batched discard with fstrim (see
> fstrim from util-linux) and run it once per (day, week, month).
>
> Thanks!
> -Lukas
>

Hi  Lukáš,
thank you for pointing out the performance issue with the discard mount 
option, I hadn't read about that yet. As far is I know I'm using a quite 
special SSD (SanDisk, with a SanDisk controller), where most other SSDs 
on the market seem to be based on Marvell, Sandforce or Indilinx 
controllers. I saw that you were using SSDs from various vendors for 
your benchmarking tests. Was a model with SanDisk controller among the 
drives you tested? Would postmark data about disks with SanDisk 
controller be of interest to you?

Regards Nor
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      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12 16:36 Ongoing data reorganization/defragmentation? norritt
2012-09-12 17:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-09-13 12:20   ` norritt
2012-09-12 18:15 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-13 12:54   ` norritt [this message]

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