From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Simon Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-95D7813E-2304-4EC6-9098-4728E0453C00 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 12:45:06 +0000 Message-Id: References: In-Reply-To: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Is fossil/venti file system a good choice for SSD? Topicbox-Message-UUID: cb7c5c9c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-95D7813E-2304-4EC6-9098-4728E0453C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i would say ssd is an excellent chiice for venti, the argument is less clear= for fossil which us much more like a traditional filesystem. fossil and venti do not have the performance if a modern filesystem bur an s= sd can make them fast enough for most use (i dont stream movies from my plan= 9 system). personally i have three disks mirrored, two rotating disks and, last year i a= dded an sdd, they are irdered in the mirror so the ssd is read first but the= winchesters are written first. -Steve > On 3 Feb 2018, at 09:39, lchg wrote: >=20 > As I know, fossil/venti file system is log-structured, so it may be good= for flash devices, especially in extending life of flash devices. --Apple-Mail-95D7813E-2304-4EC6-9098-4728E0453C00 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
i would say ssd is an excel= lent chiice for venti, the argument is less clear for fossil which us much m= ore like a traditional filesystem.

fossil and venti= do not have the performance if a modern filesystem bur an ssd can make them= fast enough for most use (i dont stream movies from my plan9 system).
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personally i have three disks mirrored, two rotating dis= ks and, last year i added an sdd, they are irdered in the mirror so the ssd i= s read first but the winchesters are written first.

-Steve

On 3 Feb 2018, at 09:39, lchg <lchg567@gmail.com> wrote:

As I know,  fossil/venti file system= is log-structured,  so it may be good for flash devices, especially in=  extending life of flash devices.=
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