[PLUG] [PLUG-TALK] Solid state drive reliability

[Dan Young]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>wrote:

> The following discusses the best linux filesystem with SSD:
>
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/228657/which-linux-filesystem-works-best-with-ssd
>
> This thread suggests using ext4 with TRIM.  That shows up in
> the 2.6.33 kernel (I'm using an RHEL6 kernel with 2.6.32, sigh).
>

ext4 on RHEL6 supports TRIM via the 'discard' mount option:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/newmds-ssdtuning.html

Red Hat frequently backports selective features from kernels released after
the nominal kernel version.

-- 
Dan Young