Re: [9fans] anyone put their venti on an SSD?

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Fri May  3 17:59:27 EDT 2013, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:
> i have 60GB intel ssd in my new fileserver holding the
> cwfs worm cache. no problems so far. but the machine is
> just up for two weeks.

as long as we're straying from venti, i'll say that i've used ssds
in ken's file server as both cache and worm drives.  there
were no problems at all.  i've mostly used various intel drives,
which have performed in accordance to all published specs.

i've also used ocz drives as boot drives to hold nvram.  no
problems.  perhaps this is the proverbial faint praise.

on the subject of ken's file server / cwfs, it makes the most sense
to me to use ssds as worm, not cache.  bandwith to the cache
isn't important as long as you don't blow the ram cache.  but
anything that isn't in the ram cache but is on the worm tends
to be randomish access.  ssds to very well at at random access,
and write once decreases pressure on many things that make
implementing a flash drive hard.

i would expect similar from venti, which has an even more random
data access pattern.

- erik