linux-kernel - Re: ext4 bug ? "Intel 320 SSD write performance

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Message-ID: <CAF78GY3CnUiuKRQkdTAWFYDcXMwaZcnWUhyenkJKqZuaQVtYtg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:47:36 +0100
From:	Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@...il.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 bug ? "Intel 320 SSD write performance – contd."

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> So I (and the distributions) don't want to make it the default, since
> if you buy crap drives and then mke2fs turns them into bricks, who are
> you likely to blame?  The crap SSD manufacturer?  Yourself for trying
> to buy SSD's on the cheap?  Or the program that issued the TRIM
> command?

Thanks for the explanation. I don't know much about SSDs so far: I indeed
heard about bricks, but not because of TRIM.
And I thank you (and distributions) for staying on the safe side.

Regards,
-- 
Vincent Pelletier
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