On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 01:37:06PM +0200, Toke Eskildsen wrote: > Yes, the first generation of SSDs had bad wear-leveling and there has > been some exceptionally bad eggs along the way, but we're long past that > point now. All brand name SSDs use wear leveling and unless you set up > pathological destruction cases (fill the drive to 99% and keep > re-writing the last 1% ) the drive will be obsolete before it wears out. > > What kills modern SSDs are either non-rewrite-related errors or server > use that requires a full to-hardware flushes after all small changes.
I'm a little confused. What do you mean by a "full to-hardware flush" and how is that different from the sync()/fsync() calls that Lucene makes by default on each IndexWriter commit()? Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
