I am thinking of using XFS over a SSD disk. 1. Can I separate xfs meta data ( not just the logging) from the SSD ? can I put the meta on a different disk ? 2. When does a file's meta ( its block maps
I am thinking of using XFS over a SSD disk. I am currently using XFS on an Intel X25-E with the logdev internal, using the defaults. I see the point for putting the journal elsewhere; however, that
Are you talking about just the log (see the mkfs man page for external logs, as Justin suggested) or all metadata? For the latter, using the realtime subvolume does accomplish this (data on one volum
I have yet to play with xfs on ssd, but I would imagine that setting up the fs geometry to match the ssd preferred IO sizes and/or erase block sizes might at least help. -Eric
I am referring to all the meta data. 128K of erase block for some block map update is a big penalty. I do not like much rt volumes. I tried that and it is cumbersome. UBIFS cannot handle 80GB Flash d
Le Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:42:34 +0200 vous écriviez: I've made some testing on a bunch of MTRON SSDs. Actually, the best bet is to use one SSD to store the XFS log for an array of SATA or SAS drives, tha