Dell and SSD drives

[Ronan Mullally]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Tino Schwarze wrote:

> Then go for RAM first. Use a dedicated FS tuned for the task (I remember
> that mke2fs has an option for creating a file system tuned for Usenet
> news: -T news). Or maybe a dedicated RAID-1 of fast 15k drives would
> help for temporary storage?

All '-T news' does is set a 4KB inode ratio to make more effective use of
disk space (ie ensuring there are enough inodes for every news article).

I remember reading an article by Tobias Oetiker of MRTG / RRDtool fame a
few months ago where he extoled the wonders of using an SSD device for an
external ext3 journal.  He saw a significant increase in filesystem
performance.  That might be a good middle ground.


-Ronan