TITLE SHOULDA BEEN: Comparing Mint 12 with Oneiric 11.10 when trying to completely dump Unity.

[Michael Butash]

I think it's still a lot of theory and assumption that goes on trying to 
figure out exactly how to treat these darn SSD's just right, and every 
one is different.  So much information, yet none of it is really 
comprehensive how exactly to deal with them across all the various 
fs-types.  It took me a few weeks to get my recipe working somewhat 
reliably on my hp laptop, where the laptop has it's own issue to 
compound it too (relating to disk security/locking in bios).

Kind of a shame, It only makes linux look piss poor when you have to 
spend so much effort to figure out such a basic disk function if you 
want to do it "right" and get the most performance/longevity.  I still 
in no way know if I really am, either.  I'm hoping someone at canonical, 
redhat, or even the disk vendors start building partitioning systems 
intelligent account for SSD's, otherwise they're creating timebombs.  My 
first pair of SSD's didn't last a year before one began getting flaky 
(2nd gen sata3 micron, the "good" ones), and that was with default 
alignment with md/lvm atop it (no disk encryption at the time, just the 
homedir).

Since trim support is still pretty wack (doesn't work fully between 
lvm/luks/raid), I heard disk vendors are they're pushing the garbage 
collection into hardware in the disk now at least.  Maybe they need to 
align themselves for the stupid os' too.  :)

-mb


On 02/12/2012 09:34 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> That's interesting, as I settled on 32x32 as well. It seems to fit all
> the possibilities (4k sectors, etc).
> Great minds think alike. ;)
>
> Yeah, the installers aren't up to snuff with alignment or GPT yet from
> what I've seen.
>
> Thanks.
>