On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 19:11:06 schrieb Michael Mol: > >> Yet would potentially run afoul of the SSD's write block resolution. >> And, of course, having the journal fail out from under me would be a >> fair bit worse than the kernel panicking during a swap operation. >> > > SSDs have this nice feature - it is called sudden violent death. Good chance > that when it fails, all of it fails ;)
Yeah, which is why I haven't been keen on putting an entire filesystem on one, and would rather have it as a cache; caches are, by nature, temporary. >> >> I ran into trouble with Thunderbird a couple months ago, which is why >> I had to drop from using tmpfs. (Also, I compile with -ggdb in CFLAGS, >> so I expect my build sizes bloat a bit more than most) > > uuuh.. yeah.. 'a bit'.. you are a man of understatement. :) -- :wq
