Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and you guys are probably the right ones to ask.
I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about uses for them beyond using them for / or /home. 1) What about sitting swap (partition, file, whatever) on the SSD? Presumably, in scenarios where expanding the RAM in a system is prohibitively expensive, an SSD could reduce the impact of swap thrash. 2) While my system rarely goes above using 2-2.5GB of RAM, I enjoy having 6-8GB of RAM, just for the file cache. Of course, I lose that when I reboot; the cache needs to be repopulated. Has there been any work in the kernel for doing things like Vista/Win7's ReadyBoost? ReadyBoost has a ridiculous limit to only using 4GB of a flash drive, but I'd think that an 80GB SSD would be a massive performance improvement. Obviously, for something like Gentoo, putting an SSD-based filesystem under /var/tmp makes a lot of sense, but what other uses have been tried? How'd they work out? -- :wq
