Re: Recommended settings for SSD

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Am Samstag, 25. Mai 2013, 23:29:41 schrieb Leonidas Spyropoulos:
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 25. Mai 2013, 03:58:12 schrieb Duncan:
> > [...]
> > And can be verified by:
> >
> > martin@merkaba:~> grep ssd /proc/mounts
> > /dev/mapper/merkaba-debian / btrfs rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache 0 0
> > /dev/mapper/merkaba-debian /mnt/debian-zeit btrfs
> > rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache 0 0
> > /dev/mapper/merkaba-home /home btrfs rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache 0
> > 0
> > /dev/mapper/merkaba-home /mnt/home-zeit btrfs
> > rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache 0 0
> > martin@merkaba:~> grep ssd /etc/fstab
> > martin@merkaba:~#1>
> > [...]
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> 
> I see you are using compression. I don't have compression at the
> moment and I would like to use it. What will happen to the data that
> are already on the partitions? Will it be compressed when I use them?
> Do I have to re-write them? Would it be compressed with btrfs defrag
> command?
> 
> Thanks for the information

Only new or defragmented data as Harald explained already.

Beware: I wouldn´t use compression on SSDs that compress themselves, like
any modern SandForce SSDs I bet.

The Intel SSD 320 in use here doesn´t compress itself, it just encrypts.

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